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The Curator's Report. 



The Curator's Report to the Committee will be given 

 as an Appendix, but we may note here two or three items 

 of interest from it : — 



1. The increase in the library, and especially the 

 presentation by H.M. Government of a very nearly 

 complete set of the " Challenger " Reports. The only 

 volumes wanting are a couple that are out of print, viz., 

 Vols. I. and IX. ; the latter especially, Brady's 

 Foraminifera, is a somewhat serious want, and it is to be 

 hoped that we may be able to pick up a copy second-hand 

 or that some friend will present it to our library. 



2. The additions to the Museum which, along with 

 the Aquarium, forms a great and growing attraction to 

 visitors. Nearly twelve thousand persons in all paid for 

 admission io the Aquarium during the year 1903 ; there 

 were over 500 in Whit-week and 1,327 during the second 

 week of August. The largest number on one day was 291 

 on August 10th. We find a considerable number of the 

 visitors coming back time after time, and bringing their 

 friends to see objects of special interest that they had 

 noticed in the tanks. A considerable number buy the 

 illustrated guide, and they ask the Curator for additional 

 information and seem desirous not merely of admiring the 

 beautiful and curious forms of submarine life we are able 

 to display but also of learning as much as possible in 

 regard to their nature, relations, habits and mode of life. 

 This very marked success of the Aquarium as a popular 

 educational institution is most satisfactory and gratifying 

 to those who had expended a considerable amount of 

 thought and trouble in planning and organising this 

 department of the Biological Station. 



3. The hatching and rearing of young lobsters, which 



