CONTENTS. 

 I. — Proceedings. 



PAGE. 



Office-bearers and Council, 1903-1904 . . . vii. 



Keport of the Council ...... viii. 



Summary of Proceedings at the Meetings . . ix. 



List of Members xv. 



Treasurer's Balance Sheet xix. 



II. — Transactions. 



Presidential Address — "Weeds of our Fields, Way- 

 sides and Towns." By the Bev. T. S. Lea, M.A. 3 



Seventeenth Annual Report of the Liverpool Marine 

 Biological Committee and their Biological Station 

 at Port Erin (with a Memoir of I. C. Thompson, 

 F.L.S.). By Prof. W. A. Herdman, D.Sc, F.R.S. 17 



Report on the Investigations carried on during 1903, 

 in connection with the Lancashire Sea-Fisheries 

 Laboratory, at the University of Liverpool, and 

 the Sea-Fish Hatchery at Piel, near Barrow : 

 'containing "Arenicola" (L.M.B.C. Memoir 

 No. XL, by Dr. J. H. Ash worth). By Prof. W. 

 A. Herdman, D. Sc, F.R. S., Andrew Scott, A.L. S., 

 and James Johnstone, B.Sc -84- 



"Gammarus" (L.M.B.C. Memoir No. XII.). By 



Margaret Cussans, B.Sc. . . . . 327 



