78 transactions liverpool biological society. 



Staff. 



Our depleted Scientific Staff has undergone no further 

 change since last year ; but I much regret to have to record 

 the death in hospital of our former much esteemed Laboratory 

 Assistant, Thomas Hampson, who had given excellent service 

 during a number of years, at first in the Zoological Department 

 of the University, and latterly in the Sea-Fisheries Laboratory. 

 After being twice rejected on medical grounds, Hampson 

 enlisted in 1915, as an hospital orderly, and was for some 

 time engaged in the Pathological Laboratory of the University, 

 in the preparation of the necessary materials for the bacterio- 

 logical investigation of the cases in the Military hospitals of 

 the district. He was afterwards transferred to the Fazakerley 

 Military Hospital, but was evidently unable to withstand 

 the strain of the necessarily hard work. An old-standing 

 constitutional weakness of the lungs reappeared, and after 

 an illness of some weeks he died in the Royal Infirmary, on 

 27th December, 1916, much regretted by all with whom he 

 had worked. He was a young man of much promise, who 

 gave constant, careful and helpful service, chiefly under 

 Dr. Johnstone's direction in our laboratory, and might, after 

 further training, and under happier conditions in the future 

 have gone on to more important scientific work for the Com- 

 mittee. Our Report for 1914 contained a short paper by 

 Hampson (then known as Monaghan) on the spawning of the 

 shrimps in the Mersey Estuary. 



Mr. W. Riddell, M.A., joined the Liverpool Scottish 

 in July last, and is now on active service in the Machine Gun 

 Corps. 



Work at Piel. 



For reasons which are given by Mr. Scott in his section 

 of the Report, no Fishermen's Classes have been possible, 



