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full equipment of tow-nets and small fish trawls of various 

 kinds which were worked over the stern. She was also provided 

 with a Lucas sounding machine, an Ekman current meter, 

 and the usual water bottles and deep-sea thermometers, which 

 were worked over the rail amidships. The plankton results 

 are given in considerable detail in the Report for this year. 



Fig. 13. Equipment of Plankton nets, etc., on board the " Ladybird." 



[Photo, by Mr. R. Okell. 



During this and following years Professor B. Moore and 

 Dr. Roaf continued their researches in various departments 

 of Bio-chemistry, including the digestive ferments of inverte- 

 brates, the secretion of the hypobranchial glands of Mollusca 

 and the bio-chemistry of the blood and other tissues of Pecten. 



Notable additions to the local fauna exhibited in the 

 Aquarium . were the Lucernarian Haliclystus auricula, the 

 Anemones Aureliana augusta, Corynactis viridis, Sagartia rosea, 

 S. herdmani, Bunodes thallia, Stomphia churchice and a young 

 Cerianthus, and the beautiful little coral Paracyathus pteropus. 



