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next volume. As references to the literature are given after 

 the name of each species, the list forms a useful index to 

 all the L.M.B.C. publications up to date ; and in addition 

 contains a record of all the Fishes we have obtained in 

 the district — a group not yet reported on. The list in 

 question appeared before the British Association as the 

 fourth and final report of that Committee of the Assoc- 

 iation which has for some years been co-operating in the 

 L.M.B.C. work. That report contains the following 

 " Concluding Remarks : — 



"Although this is put forward as a final report of the 

 present Committee, they do not desire thereby to indicate 

 that the work of exploring the zoology, botany, and geology 

 of the Irish Sea is finished. Probably such an investi- 

 gation can never be finished ; but the Committee feel that 

 the occasion of the British Association meeting in Liver- 

 pool is one that they ought to take advantage of to present 

 a report which is final, in the sense that it completes the 

 present series of reports, and brings together and sums 

 up the results of all previous marine biological work in 

 the district. 



" For the future, they feel that the work will be carried 

 on actively by the Liverpool Marine Biology Committee, 

 the body of investigators by whom most of the work has 

 been done in the past. The Port Erin Biological Station 

 is equipped for such work, and the British Association 

 can best render effective help by supporting the general 

 investigations carried on at that station, or by giving 

 grants for special researches." 



