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meetings of the third class from three of the students 

 who had attended the second class. The telegram 

 contained the pleasing information that they had passed 

 the Board of Trade examination and obtained their 

 skipper's certificate. One of them was shortly after- 

 wards appointed master of a steam trawler. 



The annual inspection of the classes was made by 

 Mr. Hopkinson, Chairman of the Finance Committee, 

 and a party of Members of the Bury Corporation 

 on May 16th. A short address describing the 

 administrative and scientific work carried on by the 

 Committee was given in the Laboratory to the visitors 

 by Mr. Hopkinson, who acted as leader in the absence 

 of the Chairman of the Sea Fisheries Joint Committee. 

 They then inspected the work being done by the 

 fishermen students, and afterwards a few complimentary 

 speeches were made. 



Mr. A. Harris, H.M. Inspector of Evening Schools 

 for the district, paid an official visit, and inspected the 

 teaching work that was going on. Professor Herdman 

 and Dr. Jenkins also visited the establishment during 

 the year. The usual visits by members of local rambling 

 clubs and others interested in scientific work were made 

 on the Saturday afternoons during March, April and 

 May. 



Our thanks are again due to the United States 

 Fisheries Department ; the Smithsonian Institution ; 

 Professor E. Ehrenbaum, of the Biological Station at 

 Helgoland; Dr. Annandale, Superintendent of the Indian 

 Museum; Mr. E. W. L. Holt, the Scientific Adviser to 

 the Irish Fisheries Department; and others, for additions 

 to the Library. The whole of the unbound volumes, 

 pamphlets, &c, have recently been bound with service- 

 able covers, and are now in better condition for reference. 



