222 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Bfsttlt of the Transplanting. 

 The transplanting work has been a complete success 

 from its inception. In the late Mr. E. A. Dawson's 

 Report for the Quarter ending September, 1903, referring 

 to the Morecambe mussels, it is stated : — " The mussels 

 " that were transplanted here last spring have grown 

 " rapidly, and the fish are of first rate quality. I am 

 " informed the merchants prefer these to the mussels 



Fig. G. — Discharging mussels in Etinghole. 



" taken from olhor beds in thai vicinity/ 5 Thai was Hie 

 result of the first transplanting experiment. Many of 

 the mussels transplanted in 1903 were what are known 

 amongst fishermen as " blue nobs " very old mussels 

 with thick shells of a dead blue colour, much corroded, 

 especially in the hinge region, and having no epidermis 

 on them. When the shell is opened the animal Is usually 

 found to be thin and watery. These mussels are 



