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I hope, also, soon to find that the laboratory will be provided 
with a microtome and the accessories for carrying out minute 
investigation into structure. 
It will be desirable in the coming spawning season to get some 
surface and mid- water netting done. I am sure that Mr. Dent 
would consent to the “Livingstone’s” being used for that purpose, 
and Mr. Storey is willing, should the Committee sanction it, to go 
out now and then with a trawler for a similar purpose. Much 
important knowledge in regard to the spawning habits of the fishes 
and material for illustrating development would be obtained in this 
way. The fishery officer might find time, moreover, to make local 
hauls with nets if a boat were at the disposal of the laboratory. 
I mention these to show what possible developments might take 
place. We are willing to do our best with the material and 
apparatus at present at our disposal, but we cannot help desiring 
that our means of getting material, of investigating and of preserving 
it, should be increased. 
L should only like, in conclusion, to point out that the fishermen 
of the district are invited to avail themselves of the laboratory by 
bringing descriptions of phenomena they may have observed and 
specimens they do not understand, and we shall do our best to 
explain to them their nature and importance. They are more than 
welcome to come and see the work we are doing, the embryo fish 
which we have managed to hatch from the egg, and many another 
interesting sight to fishermen, and they will, I am sure, join with us 
in saying that we are making an honest attempt to understand, and 
to make understood, the local fisheries and the conditions which 
influence them. 
