104 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
as well as from the Superintendent and the Honorary 
Director of the scientific work, at their sittings in 
London ; but they also visited our district, inspected very 
fully the Laboratory at Liverpool, where they held an 
informal meeting and took additional evidence, and also, 
on the invitation of the Chairman of our Committee, had 
a trip on board the new steamer, ‘‘ James Fletcher.” All 
the scientific members of Mr. Tennant’s Committee, as 
well as others, were present on these visits to the 
laboratory and steamer, and took an expert interest in 
the details of the work. I think there can be little doubt 
but that our arrangements were thoroughly approved of, 
and that it was generally felt that the local effort which 
had been so great and well sustained in the past was 
worthy of recognition and support from the Government 
in the future. 
Whether the report of Mr. Tennant’s Committee 
will lead to action on the part of the Government 
which will give us on the West Coast the amount of 
support to which we consider we are entitled is very 
doubtful, but as public money supplied by the Treasury 
is being expended on similar investigations on the Kastern 
and on the Southern Coasts of Kngland, it must surely be 
clear to all who make an impartial examination of the 
subject that some measure of support at least should be 
given to our investigations on the West Coast. It is 
possible that before this Report is actually published the 
matter may be decided; but I should like to say that it 
has never been brought more forcibly before me than in 
the preparation of this report that almost every depart- 
ment of our work and every investigation we undertake 
requires further financial support, and ought to be 
strengthened by the work of additional hands. We 
require a naturalist to take charge of the observational 
