106 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



CLASSES, VISITORS, &c, AT PIEL. 

 By Andrew Scott, A.L.S. 



Four classes for fishermen were held at Piel in 1913. The 

 Education Committee of the Lancashire County Council 

 voted the usual amount of money which enables forty-five 

 fishermen, residing in the administrative area, to receive 

 studentships for a fortnightly course of instruction in Elemen- 

 tary Marine Biology, or a combined course in Marine Biology 

 and Navigation. They also permitted Captain E. Barker 

 Thornber, the County Navigation Instructor, to be present 

 for a period of six weeks. Captain Thornber gave instruction 

 in Navigation and Seamanship to thirty-nine of the studentship 

 holders who were qualified to sit for the Board of Trade certifi- 

 cates. The Education Committee of the County Borough of 

 Southport sent four men, and the Education Committee of the 

 County Borough of Blackpool again sent three men. 

 Altogether, fifty-two men attended the classes and received 

 instruction in Marine Biology. Thirty-nine of them also 

 attended the course in Navigation. The studentship holders 

 were divided into four classes — one of eleven men, one of 

 thirteen, and two of fourteen each, as shown by the following 

 lists : — 



First class, held February 17th to 28th — Henry Benson, 

 Flookburgh ; William Butler, Flookburgh ; Eardley Hadwen, 

 Morecambe ; Peter Wilson, Morecambe ; John Woodhouse, 

 Morecambe ; John Owen, Blackpool ; Tom Craven, Blackpool ; 

 John Smith, Blackpool ; Richard Ball, Banks ; Thomas 

 Howard, Southport ; Thomas Sutton, Southport ; James 

 Wareing, Southport ; John Wright, Southport. 



Second Class, held March 3rd to 14th — Arthur Ainsworth, 

 George H. Birch, J. Brooks, John W. Cawthorne, Thomas 

 Cowell, Harry Gawne, J. Grundy, George Hughes, James 



