96 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



8th March to 19th March. — John Alexander, Thomas Bell, 

 John Bolton, Percy Bond, Mark Gerrard, Herbert Hodgson, 

 Arthur Johnston, Morecambe ; William Curwen, Herbert Raw- 

 cliffe, Ernest Wilson, Fleetwood ; Robt. Bamber, R. Cartmell, 

 Geo. Cornall, Blackpool ; John Ball, James Rigby, Southport. 



19th April to 30th April. — W. Armistead, Richard 

 Bartholomew, Walter Bell, Samuel Bond, Thomas Bond, 

 Thomas Gerrard, Walter Gerrard, Thomas Mayor, George 

 Mount and J. Woodhouse — all from Morecambe. 



A class in Navigation and Marine Biology for school 

 teachers was conducted by Dr. Johnstone and Mr. Daniel from 

 August 2nd to 13th. A number of names had been received 

 for this class, but only five gentlemen presented them- 

 selves when the work commenced. They were C. Saer, S. A. 

 Palmer and C. E. Watson, Fleetwood ; Harold Milner, West 

 Bromwich, and E. R. Bird, S. Lowestoft. The boarding-house 

 accommodation at Rampside and Roa Island is very limited. 

 It is almost impossible to secure rooms at short notice, especially 

 during the early part of August as that is the summer holiday 

 time at the large works in Barrow. In event of the August 

 vacation class for teachers being continued it would be well 

 to try to complete arrangements as early as possible in the 

 spring. 



Fish Hatching. 



A return to this part of the work was made in the spring of 

 1920. Large plaice were collected in Luce Bay in October, 

 1919, and conveyed to the tanks at Piel, where they afterwards 

 matured and provided a supply of eggs. For a time, at the 

 end of 1919 and the beginning of 1920, there was every possi- 

 bility that the Furness Railway would be unable to keep up 

 the supply of gas essential for working the gas-engine. The 

 lengthy strike of moulders at that period rendered it impossible 

 to renew defective parts of the plant, especially the cast-iron 

 retorts which had become badly cracked, allowing the gas to 



