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storage of specimens, while a large cupboard opens out ot 
one corner. 
The tank room is provided with five slate and plate- 
glass tanks, made by Alfred Carter and Co., Liverpool, 
and arranged as shown in Pl. VIII. They are capable of 
holding in all 670 gallons, and ought to be very useful in 
experimental work, or in keeping fishes and other marine 
animals alive while making observations on their habits ; 
but it can scarcely be hoped that developmental work 
upon any scale will be possible in such small tanks and 
where the same water will have to be used over and over 
again. As yet these tanks have not been made any great 
use of. So much other work has been going on in the 
laboratory that the assistant has not had sufficient time 
in this first season to stock the tanks and get them into 
working order. But two of them are now being prepared 
for some contemplated observations on the habits and life 
history of Shrimps and Cockles. 
The laboratory was completed on April 16th, and I then 
chose as Assistant (with the approval of the Consulting 
Committee—Alderman Grindley, Mr. Vicars, and Mr. 
Barrett) young Mr. Andrew Scott of Edinburgh, son of 
Mr. T. Scott, A.L.8., Naturalist to the Scottish Fishery 
Board. Mr. Andrew Scott had been a student at Edin- 
burgh University and a junior assistant to Professor . 
Ewart, and more recently had been assisting his father in 
the work of the Scottish Fishery Board. He commenced 
work in our laboratory at the beginning of May, but 
unfortunately had to resign the post at the end of the 
month in consequence of the serious illness of his father 
which necessitated the return of the son to Edinburgh to 
help in carrying on the work there. 
I then appointed as Assistant (with the sanction of the 
Consulting Committee) Mr. P. J. F, Corbin, an advanced 
