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The Laboratory was also inspected during the year 

 by Professor Hickson, F.R.S. (Manchester), Mr. Stanley 

 Gardiner (Cambridge), Professors Heincke and Ehren- 

 bauin, of the Heligoland Biological Station ; Dr. A. T. 

 Masterman, H.M. Inspector of Fisheries ; Mr. J. G. 

 Legge, Director of Education in Liverpool ; Dr. J. Travis 

 Jenkins, Superintendent of the Lancashire and Western 

 Sea-Fisheries ; and other naturalists and officials. 



Curator's Report. 



I take the following paragraphs almost verbatim 

 from the detailed report furnished to me by Mr. H. C. 

 Chadwick : — 



" The work of the past year has been characterised by 

 gratifying progress in every department except that of 

 the fish hatchery, where, owing to various causes, the 

 number of plaice larvse hatched was considerably below 

 that of last year. The number of students who have 

 occupied the laboratories shows a marked increase, and 

 though original researches have not figured quite so 

 largely as last year, much good work has been done. 

 During the Christmas vacation, at Easter, and again in 

 September, Dr. Roaf continued his researches on the 

 digestive ferments of Invertebrates, and upon the 

 secretion of the hypobranchial glands of Mollusca, and, 

 during the latter period, began an inquiry into the 

 physiological condition of what are known to local fisher- 

 men as " granny " edible crabs. During the Easter 

 vacation, Professor B. Moore devoted some time to the 

 bio-chemistry of the blood and other tissues of Pecten. 

 Mr. Pearson and Mr. Dakin continued their work on the 

 edible crab [Cancer) and Pecten respectively, and 

 Mr. Laurie instituted some experiments on regeneration 

 of lost parts in the higher Crustacea. On the faunistic 



