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Appendix D. 



HON. TBEASUREB'S STATEMENT. 



The Balance Sheet and List of Subscribers are shown on 

 the following pages. It will be noticed that there is a 

 credit balance to hand over to the Liverpool University at the 

 end of the present year. 



The following is a copy of the Minutes of the Meeting at 

 which it was decided that the Liverpool Marine Biology 

 Committee should be taken over by the Liverpool University : — 



Minutes of Meeting held at 



Manesty Buildings, College Lane, Liverpool. 



Tuesday, March 11th, 1919. 



At a Meeting of the Liverpool Marine Biology Committee 

 held as above, the following were present : 



Professor W. A. Herdman, in the Chair. 

 Mr. Edwin Thompson, Hon. Treasurer. 

 Mr. W. J. Halls. 

 Lt.-Col. R. J. Harvey Gibson. 



1. Letters were read from Mr. A. 0. Walker, Mr. P. M. C. 

 Kermode, and Mr. Arnold T. Watson, apologising for absence, 

 and expressing cordial agreement with the proposal to transfer 

 the property of the Liverpool Marine Biology Committee to 

 the University of Liverpool for the use of the Department of 

 Oceanography. 



2. It was moved by Professor Herdman, seconded by 

 Mr. Edwin Thompson, and carried unanimously :— 



u That, considering that a Departmenl of Oceanography 



(under an endowed professorship) lias now been established 

 at the University of Liverpool for the purpose of con- 



