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Botany. Other senior students comprised a group from 

 Manchester, a party, under Professor Cole, from 

 University College, Reading, and a few from University 

 College, London. Altogether, amongst researchers and 

 senior students, six different Universities or Colleges 

 were represented in the Laboratory during the greater 

 part of April. 



Among structural improvements effected during the 

 past year may be noted : — (1) a new partition wall (fig. 4) 



Fig. 4. 



View of the Spawning ponds when empty, 

 subdividing the larger pond. 



to show the new wall 



built across the larger spawning pond, so as to divide off 

 a small area at the shallow end for lobster rearing ; (2) a 

 pair of new outside concrete tanks put up for a research 

 on the attachment of Algae, etc., to various surfaces, to 



