102 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



John Woodhouse, Morecambe ; Robert Boll, Morecambe; 

 James Butler, Glasson Dock; John Hardie, Fleetwood: 

 James McMillan, Fleetwood; Joseph Price, Fleetwood: 

 Ernest liailton, Fleetwood; John Abram, Banks; 

 Geoffrey Wareing, Banks. 



Fourth Class, held April 22nd to May 3rd.— David 

 llawlinson, lioosebeck ; James Burrow, Bolton-le-Sands ; 

 W. Lawrence Fawcett, Morecambe; John Burrow, jun., 

 Heysham ; William Hargreaves, Knott End, Fleetwood ; 

 John Bridge, Banks ; Thomas Melling, Blackpool ; 

 Ezekiel Salthouse, Blackpool ; Henry Smith, Blackpool. 



The usual votes of thanks to the Sea Fisheries 

 Committee and to the Education Committee were proposed 

 and carried by. the fishermen. 



Two classes in nature study for school teachers were 

 held during the months of April and May. The classes 

 were organised by the Barrow Education Committee and 

 were attended by teachers belonging to their schools. The 

 course of instruction for school teachers has, on the 

 suggestion of Mr. A. Haveridge, Director of Education at 

 Barrow, been somewhat modified and re-arranged. The 

 course has been divided into three stages. The first deals 

 with the common organisms of the sea shore between tide 

 marks, and the general animal and plant remains from 

 the sea bottom washed up along high-water mark. A 

 brief account of their distribution, habits, and uses is 

 given, and an explanation of the methods of collecting, 

 preserving, and mounting natural history specimens for 

 school museums. In the second stage certain common 

 types of marine animals are studied more fully than in 

 the first course. These types include a common fish like 

 the codling or herring, starfishes and sea urchins, common 

 shore crabs, cockle, mussel, &c. The third stage deals 

 with microscopical preparations, the use of the tow-net, 



