SEA FISHERIES LABORATORY. 101 
investigations was handed over to be dealt with by the 
Lancashire Sea-Fisheries Committee. 
At a meeting of the Sea-Fisheries Committee held in 
Preston on February 8th, I submitted a detailed scheme 
for the establishment and working of a Fisheries Labora- 
tory; and offered to give my services in arranging and 
supervising the scientific work provided the Committee 
established the laboratory in connection with the Natural 
History Department of University College, Liverpool, and 
found the necessary funds for the salary of an assistant 
and a small annual grant for apparatus and material. 
This was agreed to, and a sub-committee, consisting of 
Mr. W.S. Barrett, Alderman Grindley, and Mr. J. Vicars, 
was appointed to act along with me in making arrange- 
ments as to the laboratory with the Council of University 
College and to receive estimates for the erection of the 
building. A form of agreement with the College Council 
was drawn up and signed, a suitable position was obtained 
on the roof of the Natural History Department, and a 
wooden laboratory (20 x 10 ft.), with a small tank-room 
adjoining (see Pl. VIII.) was erected by the wood-working 
department of the College, under the direction of Mr. R. 
Garner, for the sum of £91 4 1. The necessary plumbing, 
egasfitting and plastermg work cost £26 6 6, the tanks 
£30 10 0, and the other fittings and apparatus, and stock 
of bottles, spirit, chemicals, &c., up to the end of Decem- 
ber, 1892, about £30; while the salary of the assistant, and 
the current expenses up to the completion of the year will 
bring the expenses up to the full amount granted, £300. 
Along one side of the laboratory under the two larger 
windows is fixed a strong work-table for the dissection 
and microscopic examination of specimens, and provided 
with sink and gas and water fittings. The back of the 
room is provided ,with abundance of shelving for the 
