100 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
the Annual Report should, for the present year, be issued 
in this modified form, consisting of a brief statement of the 
investigations undertaken and of such conclusions arrived 
at as seem to be worthy of publication—leaving the detailed 
observations, the tables of statistics, the diagrams, curves 
and charts with which these reports have usually been ulus- 
trated to be produced on some future occasion, when normal 
conditions of scientific fisheries work shall have been resumed 
in our District. 
STAFF. 
Our scientific staff has, naturally, been reduced—those 
who were of military age having left us for work connected 
with the war. Mr. W. Riddell is enrolled in the corps of expert 
bacteriologists who are investigating the cases of dysentery, 
typhoid and other similar diseases of the soldiers in military 
hospitals. His work, for the present, lies in the Hospital and 
the Laboratory of the Liverpool School of Tropical Diseases, 
but it is probable that he will eventually be sent abroad. 
Mr. T. Hampson, after being rejected on medical grounds, 
enlisted as an hospital orderly ; but on account of his know- 
ledge of laboratory methods and of the preparation of 
bacteriological media he was transferred from Fazakerley 
Hospital to the Pathological Laboratory of the University 
to help in the preparation of the necessary materials for the 
investigation of the hospital cases. ‘ 
Both these Fisheries Assistants, then, may be regarded 
as having been appointed to war work for which their previous 
training in our laboratory rendered them peculiarly suitable. 
It is eminently desirable that on the conclusion of the war — 
they should both resume their posts on the Committee’s 
scientific staff. 
