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4. Surface Life of Sea. — Townet gatherings, fish eggs, 



diatoms, copepoda. 



5. Fisheries Museum. — An examination of the cases in 



the museum at University College. 



6. Edible Mollusca. — Oyster, cockle and mussel. 



7. Fish Parasites. — External and internal, and their 



hosts. 



8. Fish Structure. — Cod — Also stages of growth and 



changes in reproductive organs. 



9. Food of Fishes. — How to examine fishes' stomachs 



and determine principal food matters. 



10. Eggs and Larval Stages of Fish. — How to dis- 



tinguish them and where they are found. Also 



eggs of Shell-Fish and Crustacea. 

 The whole course was made entirely practical in character. 

 Each man examined everything for himself. The course 

 was preceded by an introductory address by myself, and 

 I finished it with a short concluding lecture. 



The Committee may like to have recorded here the list 

 of those who attended this first laboratory class for fisher- 

 men. It is as follows : — 

 In February — 



John Wright, Southport. 



William Wright, Southport. 



Greorge Alexander, Morecambe. 



Luke Woodhouse, Morecambe. 

 In March — 



Walter Baxter, Morecambe. 



Robert Gardner, Morecambe. 



James Allan, Morecambe. 



Thomas Wilson, Morecambe. 



Edward Woodhouse, Morecambe. 



John Wright, Southport. 



Albert Robinson, Southport. 



