106 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
aereed to on all hands. We looked for something more 
from this Conference. Their one definite recommendation 
(see “‘Résolutions Textuelles,”’ p. 12) to the governments 
concerned, is in regard to the establishment of the 
central bureau, in which the work will apparently, in 
large part, be that of a physico-chemical laboratory. Ido 
not think that, after what I have written in previous 
L.M.B.C. Reports, I can be accused of under-valuing the 
importance of hydrographic work, in its connection with 
the fisheries, as carried out of late years chiefly by the 
Scandinavians ; but it seems curious, to say the least of 
it, that the obvious biological investigations of primary 
importance have been passed so lightly over, while the 
secondary hydrographic investigations are strongly urged. 
The impression given by the Report 1s, certainly, that it 
has been drawn up by hydrographers, and not by 
biologists. 
There are points of detail in the report that might be- 
criticised if 1t were worth while—such as that the sea- 
area, proposed by the Conference, to be covered by the 
hydrographic investigations should certainly be extended . 
so as to include the English Channel and the Irish Sea— 
and probably, also, the west coast of Ireland. At any 
rate, the omission of the whole of the Irish Sea from a 
scheme undertaken (so far as our government delegates 
were concerned) in the interests of the British fisheries 
requires explanation. 
It has been pointed out, by another critic, that the best 
course for the British government to pursue, in order to 
give effect to the report of the Stockholm Conference, is 
to develop, and, as far as possible, co-ordinate the work 
of the various institutions already in existence, such as 
the Marine Biological Association and the Scottish Fishery 
Board, at the same time encouraging the formation of 
