lf)2 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Parr, from Blackpool, wore also present, the studentships 

 being granted by the Blackpool Education Committee. 



The usual voles of thanks to the Sea Fisheries Com- 

 mittee and to the Education Committee of the Lancashire 

 County Council were proposed and carried by the fisher- 

 men. One of the most noteworthy fishermen students 

 we have ever met with was a member of the third class, 

 James Woodhouse, of Morecambe, a fisherman close on 

 eighty'-hvo years of age, and still following his arduous 

 vocation with surprising activity. On several occasions 

 during the summer, when fishing in the vicinity of Piel, 

 he paid us a visit. Mr. Woodhouse proved an attentive 

 student, and in a short speech stated he had learned much 

 about the habits and life of fish that was new to him. 



A class in Nature Study for school teachers was held 

 on two week nights and Saturday afternoons during the 

 last two weeks of April and first week of May. The class 

 was attended by seventeen students, all teachers in the 

 schools under the Barrow Education Committee. This 

 is the fourth class in Nature Study for teachers that has 

 been conducted at Piel. 



The dates for the next classes for fishermen are 

 practically settled. Two will be held before Easter 

 March 12th to 2:5rd, March 26th to April 6th and one 

 after Easter April 23rd to May 4th. A fourth class, if 

 required, could meet from May 7th to 18th. 



Mr. M. A. Fenton, H.M. Inspector of Schools, has 

 inspected the laboratory and equipment for teaching 

 purposes. A report giving a summary of the apparatus 

 in stock, and also of the previous classes tor fishermen 

 and school teachers, has since been forwarded to him. 



Mr. Hawcridge, Director of Education for Barrow, 

 Mr. Hopkinson and Mr. Baxter, members of the Com- 

 mittee, and others have recentlv visited the establishment. 



