102 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
CLUPEIDH.—Clupea harengus (Herring) is taken abun- 
dantly a few miles south-west of the Calf. 
MuR2ZNIDE.—Conger vulgaris (Conger Hel) is taken 
outside the Bay from north of Fleshwick to the Calf. 
Evidently prefers mackerel to any other form of bait, and 
undoubtedly selects it in preference to herring. 
SYNGNATHIDA.—Syngnathus acus (Pipe fish) is captured 
at low tide and in rock pools. Seems to prefer neighbour- 
hood of Chorda filum, to detached or floating portions of 
which it presents some resemblance. 
HLASMOBRANCHII.—fiaja maculata (Skate) and Scylliwm 
canicula (Dog fish) were taken outside the Bay when 
ground fishing with mackerel bait for other forms.” 
WoRK ON OYSTERS AND DISEASE. 
As the progress of the investigation upon the con- 
ditions under which oysters flourish, and the connection 
between unhealthy oysters and disease in man, carried on 
for some years now by Prof. Boyce and myself, has been 
noted from time to time in these Annual Reports, it may 
interest some readers to know that the work is now con- 
cluded, and that the final results have been published 
(October, 1899) under the auspices of the Lancashire Sea- 
Fisheries Committee, as the first ‘‘ Lancashire - Sea- 
Fisheries Memoir.” This is a thin quarto volume* of 
about 70 pages, illustrated by eight partly coloured plates, 
and giving the details of the histological, chemical, and 
bacteriological evidence upon which the conclusions as to 
oysters printed in last year’s report were based. Since 
that report was published last year it is satisfactory to 
know that (1) the ‘‘ British Oyster Industries Association,” 
on very much the lines that we suggested, has been 
* «Oysters and Disease,” published by George Philip and Son, London 
and Liverpool, at 7s. 6d. nett, 
