100 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



years he takes Zoology, Bio- and Physical Chemistry, Geology 

 and Oceanography. In his last year he continues to study 

 Zoology, Chemistry and more advanced Oceanography, con- 

 sisting of a general course along with three special subjects, 

 one of which has to be selected by the student, viz., Marine 

 Biology, Marine Geology, and Sea-Fisheries. 



The course for the B.Com.Sc. degree consists of one year 

 of preliminary studies preparatory to the Intermediate examina- 

 tion and then two years leading up to the Final. The first of 

 these is occupied by the principles of Economics and Commerce, 

 a modern language, Marine Biology and a general course on 

 Oceanography. The work in the final year consists in the 

 study of commercial transactions, a continuation of the same 

 modern language, and the detailed study of a selected industry, 

 such as Sea-Fisheries. 



The University has established in connection with the 

 Department of Oceanography an " Advisory Committee " 

 upon which they have appointed the Chairman (Mr. Charles 

 Maclver) and the Superintendent (Dr. J. Travis Jenkins) as 

 representing your Committee, along with representatives of 

 the Isle of Man Fishery Board, the Liverpool Marine Biology 

 Committee, the Scientific Staff of the University and some of 

 the leading fishing industries of the neighbourhood. It is 

 hoped that in this way all these cognate interests may be 

 brought into close relation with the scientific work of the 

 Oceanography department. 



In the present Report we have a paper from Dr. Johnstone 

 on some vermean parasites and abnormalities of fishes, and 

 another on the dietetic value of herrings, especially in relation 

 to their times of spawning. There are contributions by 

 Mr. Walton, who worked for some time during the year on our 

 staff, dealing with the ecology of cockle-beds in the district, 

 and two papers by Mr. R. J. Daniel, who has come back to 

 us after his war service , the one dealing with our drift-bottle 



