48 TRANSACTIONS LIVEEPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



celurops and mela?iops, and Sagartia troglodytes, varieties 

 scolopacina and Candida. 



The Sheimp Enquiey. 



At the February Meeting of the Biological Society, last 

 Session (see "Proceedings," p. xiv.), I announced my inten- 

 tion of trying to collect statistics during the coming year 

 that would aid in giving us more exact knowledge of the 

 life-history and habits of the common shrimp {C rang on 

 vulgaris) in this neighbourhood. It is well known that we 

 are here in the centre of a considerable shrimping industry, 

 and large numbers of shrimps come into the Liverpool 

 market from various points on the adjacent coasts of 

 Lancashire and Cheshire, both in the fresh condition and 

 also potted in butter. 



I prepared a circular, asking a few simple questions, 

 such as a fisherman or shrimper would be perfectly well 

 able to answer, and despatched a set of questions with 

 blank spaces for answers, one for each month of the year, 

 to five centres in the district, where I was fortunate 

 enough to find gentlemen who kindly undertook to get 

 the forms filled up by fishermen and returned to me. Mr. 

 T. Comber, F.L.S., undertook Parkgate ; Mr. K. L. 

 Ascroft, Lytham ; Mr. A. Leicester, Southporfc ; Mr. A. 

 G-. Haywood, Crosby ; and Mr. Henry Isaacs, Hoylake. 

 Unfortunately I have not received anything like complete 

 returns for the year from all of these fishing centres, but 

 two of them, Lytham and Parkgate, have continued to 

 send me reports during the whole year with the greatest 

 regularity. I have now reduced these reports to a tabular 

 form, which is annexed. I have also received some inter- 

 esting information from Mr. W. B. Halhed, obtained from 

 Parkgate fishermen. I wish to express my acknowledg- 

 ments to all these gentlemen for their hearty co-operation, 



