100 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
About one-fourth part of the contents of the jar was preserved, 
and on being counted later on was found by Mr. Andrew Scott 
to amount to 50 ¢.c. of Copepoda, consisting of 33,340 Temora 
and 2 Calanus. Mr. Scott estimated the oil present in 9 c.c, 
of the dried Temora at 2°47 per cent. of the weight, which 
was 0°925 gramme. sted 
“ During this same time the men were catching herring in 
quantity unusually close inshore in the neighbourhood of the 
red patches, and on examining, in the laboratory at the 
Biological Station, the stomach-contents of a number of these 
herrings, I found in every case that the stomach contained 
Fig, 2. Temora remains from the stomachs of the Herring. 
From a photo-micrograph by A. Scott. 
a mass of red material which was obviously, under the micro- 
scope, the broken-down remains of Copepoda. A few Crab 
zoea were recognisable, but the bulk of the material consisted 
undoubtedly of the Copepoda. Mr. Scott examined 5 c.c. of 
the stomach-contents for me, and found that it contained 
975 easily recognisable specimens of Temora. A photograph 
(fig. 2), which Mr. Scott has made from one of the microscopic 
preparations, shows appendages that undoubtedly belong to 
this Copepod, while here and there in the stomachs complete 
