Tho laboratory was utilized this year by Messrs. F. W. Iveeble, 
M.A., and F. W. Gamble, D.Sc., to carry on their interesting and 
important joint research on the physiology of colour in animals. 
Mr. W. T. Gibson, from the Royal College of Science, London, 
worked in the laboratory during the summer and did a vast amount 
of general collecting, especially devoting himself to the annelids. 
Amongst his more important finds was Synapta digitala, which I 
believe is a record for the district. I have to thank him for his 
help in keeping the faunistic diary. 
I beg most gratefully once more to acknowledge the receipt of 
one guinea each from Messrs. R. Y. Green and G. E. Crawhall. 
These contributions have helped us in buying “ Sars' Crustacea of 
Norway,” a work which has cost over six pounds. 
Mr. Bulraan has returned to ray care the collections of 
Mollusca, along with a number of boxes and bottles which he put 
himself to the expense of obtaining when naming and classify- 
ing the specimens. For these I beg to thank him. I have 
unfortunately no room at the laboratory for keeping our collections, 
and even at the College it is difficult to provide space for them. I 
hope, however, that the necessity for a collection, either at Culler- 
coats or in Newcastle, to illustrate our Fisheries will be recognised 
and provided for. The different temperatures necessary to the 
coinfort of the inhabitants of the tanks and the investigators in 
the laboratory show also that we want such an extension as will 
provide a tank-room separate from the work-room. 
Alexander Mkkk. 
