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Appendix B. 



CURATOR'S REPORT TO THE COMMITTEE. 



The greater part of my time and energies during the 

 past year have been devoted to the fish hatchery and the 

 aquarium. The equipment of the former was not com- 

 pleted until the end of February, when the hatching 

 season began, and from that time onwards to the middle 

 of September I was unable to devote more than an 

 occasional hour to the more strictly scientific side of my 

 work. Much time and labour had to be expended upon 

 the hatching apparatus and the care of our stock of 

 spawning fish, and it was with great regret that I found 

 myself unable to devote as much time as in former years 

 to the interests of our Easter vacation students. 



The hatching season over, I turned my attention to 

 the aquarium, in which, as a result of its extraordinary 

 popularity as a public institution, and the impossibility of 

 finding a suitable person to supervise it, I was obliged to 

 spend nearly the whole of my time until the end of the 

 visitors' season. Since then I have been able to devote 

 more attention to the scientific and administrative sides 

 of my work. In the library a number of reprints and 

 memoirs, acquired by presentation and purchase, have 

 been stored in cases, so as to be readily accessible for 

 reference, all the books have been carefully examined, 

 and a nearly complete set of Reports on the Scientific 

 Results of the " Challenger " Expedition, presented by 

 H.M. Government, have been placed on the shelves. 



In the museum gallery a beginning has been made 

 with the permanent arrangement of the specimens in the 



