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The experimental legislation of the east coast of England is 
subjected to further analysis, and the figures for the Eastern District 
are added. It is shown in particular that the protection of the 
berried lobster in Northumberland has proved to be beneficial. 
The attempt to rear lobsters was a failure, due, it is believed to the 
berried lobsters being obtained from Shields market, and probably 
also to copper being present in the water. Mr. Douglas marked 74 
berried lobsters, and 19 of these have been accounted for. One 
migrated ten miles north of Beadnell where it was liberated. 
An experiment in transplanting mussels at Holy Island has 
evidently been attended with success. Moreover, the area being free 
from sewage contamination, the mussels have given exceptionally 
pure results when subjected to bacteriological analysis. 
Miss Lebour describes more fully a new Trematode parasite of 
the Catfish, and advances good reasons for supposing that the 
larval stages occur in Buccinum undatum, and that there is no 
intermediate host. 
Mr. Storrow draws attention to the presence of a sesamoid 
articular in the lower jaws of a number of fishes, and gives an 
account of a case of spinal curvature in a codling caught on the 
hook at St. Mary’s Island. 
St. Mary's Island furnished a new parasitic alga to Dr. 
Darbishire at Easter, and he describes it under the name Chant- 
rcinsia sancta -maria. He found it growing on a reproductive frond 
of Himanthalia lorea. 
