178 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



INTRODUCTION. 



This Report on the Scientific Fisheries work of the 

 past year is drawn up on the usual lines, and is largely 

 the work of the Scientific Assistants 1 on the Staff. 



The reports of Mr. Johnstone and Mr. Riddell 

 nearly all deal with sections of our new scheme 

 of fisheries investigation. 1912 has been the first 

 (incomplete) year of scientific work with the help of a 

 grant-in-aid from the Development Fund. When our 

 last annual Report was issued, the intimation had just 

 been received that the Treasury were recommended to 

 place a sum of £1,640* at our disposal towards the 

 expenses of the scheme of scientific work which had duly 

 received the approval of the Board of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries. 



The Sub-Committee, which had been previously 

 appointed to make, when the time came, any necessary 

 changes in the posts and duties of the Scientific Staff 

 and to fill up vacancies, met on April 26th for the 

 allocation of the funds; and the new scheme of work 

 started, with scarcely a day's delay, with the monthly 

 cruise in the first week of May. This prompt utilisation 

 of the funds placed at our disposal was only rendered 

 possible by having all the necessary arrangements care- 

 fully planned beforehand, by having our Scientific Staff 

 on the spot ready for work, and by the exercise of the 

 utmost goodwill and friendly co-operation between all 

 the bodies (Lancashire and Western Sea-Fisheries 

 Committee, University of Liverpool, and Liverpool 

 Marine Biology Committee) concerned in local Sea- 

 Fisheries Investigations on the West Coast. 



* Of this amount only about £1,440 has been claimed for the 

 financial year, 1912-13 — the remainder of the expenses being defrayed 

 from the funds of the Committee raised locally. 



