32 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



the spawning and rearing of fish. As to the results 

 obtained from this institution (which is under the 

 direction of the Derby Professor and is worked in connec- 

 tion with the University department) it will suffice to 

 state that during the last year thirty-six investigators 

 worked in the laboratory, about five millions of young 

 plaice were sent out to sea from the fish-hatchery, and 

 over thirteen thousand visitors paid for admission to the 

 Aquarium. 



"It was certainly to this marine biological work in the 

 past that the Natural History department owed in the first 

 instance that connection with the local sea-fisheries 

 authorities which has recently developed into a formal 

 agreement between the University and the " Lancashire 

 and Western Sea Fisheries Committee." The scientific 

 work of the Local Fisheries District is carried on in our 

 laboratories by assistants paid by the Fisheries Committee, 

 and the Professor has been appointed Honorary Director 

 of the scientific work and furnishes an annual report on 

 the work of the fisheries laboratories. A fair share of the 

 laboratory accommodation in the new buildings will be 

 devoted to the furtherance of the work of the 

 Liverpool Marine Biology Committee, of the Lancashire 

 and Western Sea Fisheries Committee, of Economic 

 Entomology, and of other useful applications of Zoology. 



" The students of the department were at first Medicals 

 only, but a few candidates for degrees in Science and 

 others studying Zoology from a love of the subject, with 

 no examination in view, soon made their appearance, and 

 some from both categories have had very distinguished 

 careers and are now doing good work in science in various 

 parts of the world. Amongst such past students whose 

 work lay mainly or wholly in this department may be 

 mentioned: — 



