60 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Appendix A. 



CURATOR'S REPORT TO THE COMMITTEE. 



My time during the past year lias been largely devoted 

 to work in connection with the erection of the new build- 

 ing. The preparation of working drawings for the 

 guidance of the workmen engaged in the erection of the 

 laboratory workrooms, aquarium and hatchery tanks and 

 other structural details occupied me at frequent intervals 

 until the end of 1901. My thanks are due to Mr. Tames 

 Hornell, of Jersey, and Mr. A. Scott, of the Pie] 

 Laboratory, for much valuable advice and assistance in the 

 preparation of the drawings. 



Early in the present year I carefully examined, 

 cleaned and re-labelled tin 1 stock of preserved specimens, 

 and thev are now exhibited, with a number of recent 



additions, on the museum o-alleiw of tl 



lie new aquarium, 



The interest in the work of the Station aroused in 

 the minds of the local fishermen by the erection of the 

 new building has resulted in the presentation oi specimens 

 of several of the less common fishes to our collection, and 

 the addition of three names to our strictly local list of 

 fishes. A specimen of Yarrell's Blenny, Carelophus 

 ascanii, caught in a crab-pot, was brought in on March 

 22nd, and several others were found by myself and my 

 assistant (T. X. Cregeen) while shore collecting on May 

 7th and 8th. On the latter date I found a full-ffrown 

 specimen of the " Grattorugine." Blennius gattorugine, 

 which lived for some weeks in a tank in the oh! aquarium. 

 On June 6th a Tommy-Noddy, Raniceps raninus, caught 

 on a line, was brought in, and a fortnight later a Chiller's 

 Top-knot, Zeugopterus punctatus was submitted to me' bv 

 ;i fisherman Eor identification, 



