84 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
their applications to sea-fisheries research. The Council of the 
University has invited me to occupy the Chair of Oceanography — 
for the first year, from October, 1919, after which period of 
reconstruction and arrangement I shall gladly resign the 
Professorship into the competent hands of my colleague, Dr. 
Johnstone, who has for so many years been associated with 
the scientific work of the Lancashire Sea-Fisheries. It is the 
earnest hope of the founders of the Chair that the work of the 
Port Erin Biological Station and the scientific investigations of 
the Lancashire and Western Sea-Fisheries Committee may for 
the future be united under the Oceanographic Department of 
the University, and that this union may conduce to the 
advancement of our knowledge of the sea and its progacks, 
and the promotion of the local fishing industries. 
W. A. HERDMAN. 
FISHERIES LABORATORY, 
UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL, 
March lth, 1919. 
