74 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



CLASSES, VISITORS, &c 3 AT P1EL. 



By Andrew Scott. 



Four classes for fishermen were held in the Spring of 

 1!J09. The Education Committee of the Lancashire 

 County Council voted the usual money grant, which 

 enabled forty-live fishermen residing in the administrative 

 County to receive studentships and attend a course of 

 instruction at the Piel Marine Laboratory. The Cheshire 

 Education Committee sent four men, and the Southport 

 Education Committee also sent four. The Blackpool 

 Education Committee again sent three men. The 

 Education Committee of Birkenhead sent two Tranmere 

 fishermen. Altogether fifty-eight men attended the 

 classes and received instruction in elementary Marine 

 Biology. The studentship holders were divided into four 

 classes — three of fifteen each, and one of thirteen, as 

 shown by the following lists : — 



First Class, held March 8th to 19th. — John Hutton, 

 Elookbnrgh ; Richard Stackhouse, Bolton-le- Sands ; 

 John Willacy, Morecambe ; John Mount, Morecambe ; 

 Samuel Baxter, Morecambe ; Jas. Wm. Gardner, Sunder- 

 land Point ; William Parkinson, Blackpool ; Pichard 

 Cornall, Blackpool; P. West-head, Blackpool; Alfred 

 Whiteside, Lytham; George Henry Oxley, Lytham ; 

 Thomas Wareing, Banks; Paul Wareing, Banks; John 

 Kay, Tranmere ; Arthur Shaw, Lower Tranmere. 



Second Class, held March 22nd to April 2nd.— Harry 

 Procter, Askain ; John Thompson, Poosebeck ; William 

 Bavliftv Bay cliff; John Relph, Ulverston; Michael 

 Johnson, Ulverston; W. Benson, Flookburgh; Edward 

 Burrow, Flookburgh; Adam Woodhouse, Morecambe; 

 Samuel Houghton, Morecambe; John Cocking, More- 

 cambe; John Hadweu, Morecambe; Edward Ainsworth, 



