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complete as to allow of the removal of tlie instruments, 

 books, re-agents, tanks, &c., from the old Station. This 

 was done during the first week, and by the end of the 

 second week all the effects were safely stored in the places 

 assigned to them in the new laboratory. I then undertook 

 the cementing of the plate-glass fronts in the nine large 

 wall tanks in the aquarium. This occupied me until the 

 beginning of August, by which time the contractors had 

 nearly completed their work and withdrawn their men. I 

 next completed the equipment of the laboratory, in antici- 

 pation of the arrival of students. 



Two of the aquarium tanks were filled with water for 

 the first time on August 18th, and all the tanks were com- 

 pletely filled by the 26th, without the occurrence of any 

 appreciable leakage. On September 6th my assistant 

 caught and placed in several of the tanks the first fishes, 

 and from that time to the present he has devoted much 

 time and enthusiasm to the capture of specimens of many 

 of the local fishes. Of these, some few were more or less 

 injured, and did not long survive capture, but the great 

 majority were placed in the tanks in perfect health, and 

 without exception are now doing well. A few of the local 

 fishermen have rendered valuable assistance in stocking 

 the tanks. At the present moment we have specimens of 

 sea-bream, red gurnard, grey gurnard, angler, dragonet, 

 wrasse, cod, haddock, whiting-pout, coal fish, pollock, 

 whiting, turbot plaice, dab, sole, conger, lesser spotted 

 dog-fish and skate. Amongst the more familiar Inverte- 

 brates to be seen in the tanks may be mentioned the 

 common lobster, spiny lobster, edible crab, cuttlefish and 

 some sea-anemones. 



Over 600 visitors have already paid for admission to 

 the aquarium. 



