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SUMMARY AND GENERAL REPORT. 
The ]']va<lnp ” was used diirin<>- the past year -for a few 
trawlino- experiments wliich furnished additional records of 
the conditions of the Bays at the critical periods when the fish 
are in the process of leaving and retinnino: to the inshore 
waters. 
As empiiries have been sent to us as to the results of the 
Noithuinherland inarkin<r expeiiiuents, and as the records 
are scattered over a nuiuher of rejuu-ts, some of which are 
beconiiiify very scarce, a synoj)sis is now i>:iven with tables 
and chai'ts. ddiis shows what has already been accomplished, 
and it serves to indicate also that a great deal of experimental 
'work in this direction remains to 1 h' done. 
I'he experiments in Lobster (hilture were an advance on 
those of the pi-evious year, 'ritere was not a large number of 
larva' from the heriied lohsteis, hut we managed to rear a 
few to the lohsterling and the succeeding stage. .Vs a result 
we are beginning to lecognise some of the factors essential to 
'Success. 
Few jieople have actually witnessed the moulting or 
ecd^'sis of the adult lobster, and an account of the process 
based on the observations of the Laboratory Attendant, -1. A. 
Taylor, will be found to he interesting and valuable. Tt was 
■1 . A. d’aylor also who drew our attention to the fact that 
lobsters could he throAvn into a sort of mesmeric state by 
'simply rubbing them along the hack of the carapace, and 
this led to a few experiments which are described as 
‘ Mesmerising Lobsters and other Crustacenns.’' 
The ^lussel r'ulture experiment at Holy Island has 
resulted in showing that there is a vast area on Fenham Flats 
I \apahle of suppoiding mussels for bait and also for marketing 
f’or food. A heginnitig could he made by bringing together 
' he already large quantities of mussels on the Flats, so ex- 
I ending the mussel bed now formed, and particularly by 
