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opening sentence of his recent presidential address at 

 Toronto — " It has long been my conviction that we 

 study animals too much as dead things." 



Akin to biological stations, and naturally associated 

 with them, are fish hatcheries for the protection and arti- 

 ficial propagation of young food fishes, several of which 

 are now established in our own and other countries, and 

 are proving of the greatest value. The Fifteenth Annual 

 Eeport of the Scottish Fishery Board, recently issued, 

 states that at the Dunbar Hatchery, no less a number 

 than 92,920,000 of various species of flat fish, chiefly 

 plaice, turbot, and lemon sole, and some round fish, as 

 cod and haddock, have been hatched and placed in the 

 fishing grounds since the work was begun in 1894. 



Not less important work is now being done by the 

 Lancashire Fisheries Committee, whose fish laboratory 

 has for some years been established in this College, 

 under the directorship of Professor Herdman, assisted 

 by Mr. A. Scott. The recent establishment of a hatching 

 station on Peil Island, near Barrow, is expected to 

 materially augment the important labours of the Com- 

 mittee. 



Anthropology, now a most important branch of bio- 

 logical science, may be said to have only become a science 

 during the Victorian Era. Mr. E. W. Brabrook, F.S.A., 

 President of the Anthropological Institute, gives us, in 

 his presidential address for the present year, some interest- 

 ing particulars regarding it. The Ethnological Society of 

 London was founded in 1843, an Ethnological Sub-section 

 of Section D having been formed at the meeting of the 

 British Association in 1846. The Anthropological Society 

 of London was not formed until 1863, and in 1866 the 

 British Association, for that year only, formed an Anthro- 

 pological Sub-section of Section D, with Alfred Russell 



