of the Fishery Hoard for Scotland. 
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Hungary, cloven or twelve in France, one in Holland, one in 
Denmark, and several in the United States. The German 
Government have erected one at Heligoland in connection with 
their North Sea fisheries, which has been placed under the 
direction of Dr Heincke, so well known in connection with his 
researches on the herring, with Dr Ehrenbaum as assistant. 
One cannot but be impressed by the energetic ellbrts being made by 
the various governments to organise, conserve, and promote their sea 
fisheries in every way possible, and to acquire and diffuse information 
from other countries likely to prove beneficial. In many countries 
periodic official reports are obtained from abroad, and many missions of 
inquiry are made, especially perhaps to this country. 
I have to thank many foreign fishery authorities for assistance in this 
department ; not merely in supplying reports and publications referring 
to their work, but in furnishing, promptly and readily, all information in 
their power on points submitted to them 
Among these I may mention M. Eaveret-Wattel, Secretary to the 
Societe d'Acclimitation de France ; Dr P. P. C. Hoek, Scientific Super- 
intendent of Dutch Fisheries ; Captain Drechsel, the Superintendent of 
Danish Fisheries, and the Naturalist Dr Petersen ; Professor Pouchet, the 
Director of the Concarneau Laboratory ; Professor Marion, the Director of 
the Laboratoire d'Endoume, Marseille ; Captain Daunevig, the Superin- 
tendent of the well-known hatchery at Flodevig ; Senor Rafael Gutierren 
Vela, of the Spanish Fisheries Department ; Sir Charles Tupper, the High 
Commissioner for Canada ; Mr Nielsen, the Superintendent of the New- 
foundland Fisheries ; Professor Giglioli, of Florence, Fishery Commis- 
sioner ; His Highness Prince Albert of Monaco ; Baron Jules de Guerne 
and M. Jules Richard ; Drs Malm and Lundberg, the Inspectors of 
Swedish Fisheries ; Dr Sauvage, Director of the Marine Station, Boulogne- 
sur-mer. Among those at home who have been always willing to co-operate, 
I must specially mention Sir Thomas F. Brady, the Inspectors of Irish 
Fisheries, and Professor M'Intosh, F.R.S.; also Mr W. L. Calderwood, the 
Director of the Marine Biological Association's Laboratory at Plymouth ; 
Mr Ernest W. L. Holt ; Mr Olsen, Secretary of the Grimsby Marine 
Fisheries Society ; and Mr J. Wrench Towse, the Honorary Secretary to 
the National Sea Fisheries Protection Association. 
I have also to thank Mr F. G. Binnie for assistance in translating a 
number of the foreign reports, and Mr W. Anderson Smith for the 
abstract of the Spanish Reports, which is included below. 
I. UNITED KINGDOM. 
1. Great Britain. 
Since the Ninth Report appeared, two numbers of the Journal of the 
Marine Biological Association have been published.* 
In the first number there are several important papers. Mr J. T. 
Cunningham describes the ovum and -larva of Callionymus lyra, the repro- 
duction and growth of the pilchard, and the rate of growth of some sea- 
fishes, and their distribution at different ages. In the latter paper the 
results of a large number of observations are given, dealing with the 
flounder, the plaice, dab, lemon sole, sole, little sole, thickback (S. 
variegata), turbot, brill, scald-back (Arnoglossus laterna), whiting, pollack, 
bib, &c. Generally speaking, Mr Cunningham's observations regarding 
* Jour. Marine Biol. Assoc., vol. ii. Nos. 2 and 3, 1892. 
