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The collections from other areas such as Blackpool, 

 North Wales, and Port Erin have been interrupted from 

 the causes already mentioned, but the information gained 

 from these, as to distribution, &c, will be given where it 

 appears useful. A report on the distribution of the 

 organisms from year to year may be given at a future date, 

 and will contain further details. The report given last 

 year was only intended as a record of the monthly 

 occurrences of groups of organisms without mentioning 

 the genera and species, and was primarily prepared for use 

 in the fishermen's classes. 



The present report is the first, so far as we know, that 

 deals with the organisms present each month of the year 

 in the waters of Cardigan Bay. Sixty-six collections 

 from this area have been examined. Of that number 

 thirty-one were taken by the steamer in various parts of 

 the bay, twenty-two by D. Pritchard, Fishery Officer at 

 Pwllheli, and fourteen by E. Williams, Fishery Officer at 

 New Quay. The following lists give the occurrence from 

 month to month of the organisms identified in the 

 Cardigan Bay tow-nettings. 



January. 



Autolytus prolifer, Sagitta bipunctata, " Mitraria," 

 Meganyctiphanes norvegica, Calanus helgolandicus, 

 Pseudocalanus elongatus, Paracalanns parvus, Centro- 

 pages hamatus, Anomalocera pater soni, Acartia clausi, 

 Oithona similis, Fish eggs (Plaice). 



February. 



Biddulphia, Coscinodiscus, Medusoid gonophores, 

 Autolytus prolifer, Sagitta bipunctata, " Mitraria," 

 " Mysis stage " of Crangon, Calanus helgolandicus, 

 Pseudocalanus elongatus, Paracalanus parvus, Centro- 

 pages hamatus, Temora longicornis, Anomalocera 



