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I may now refer briefly to the work we have tried to do so far. 
It has simply been making a survey of the ground. Our trawling 
excursions have furnished many interesting specimens, and we have 
explored the rocks and pools which lie so conveniently near the 
laboratory. I need not tell you of the finds, but I should like to 
mention that during the spring tides of September we saw, in 
company with My sis cliamaleon, near the rocks which fringe the 
mouth of the harbour, the two spotted goby ( Gobius liuthensparri). 
It was recorded for Berwick by Dr. Johnston, but Mr. R. Howse 
had no other local record of it when he compiled his catalogue of 
local fishes. 
The shanny ( Blennius pholis) is similarly common in the young 
condition in the upper pools of these rocks. Dr. Johnson had again 
recorded it for Berwick, and this is the only local mention of it. 
On the 28th September, on the south side of the Bear’s Back Rock, 
several specimens of Montagu’s sucker ( Liparis Montayui) were 
obtained by Mr. Storey- This is recorded for the first time for the 
district. 
On the 22nd July we got the loan of a small boat and tried our 
surface nets outside the harbour. In a very short time we got 
several eggs of the weever, the dab, the “F” form mentioned in 
the report of the trawling excursions, and one which appeared to be 
that of a sole. 
Through the fishery officer we have besides obtained many 
specimens from the trawlers at Shields. 1 should like to mention 
among these (1) a Bloch’s topknot [Phyrnorh ombus punctatus), caught 
some (i miles off Dunstanborough ; (2) a young variegated sole ( Solea 
rarieyata), from 45 miles E.N.E. of the Tyne; (8) a small starry ray 
(Raia radiata), from 6 miles off Blyth. 
Among the zoophyte material (mainly Hydrallinania faJcata, 
Sertularia abietina, S. fulicula ) which is gathered up in large quantity 
in the net of the trawl, we occasionally got a good deal of herring 
spawn. From this we were able to hatch the embryo herring. It 
must be observed, however, that the quantity thus got by the 
trawlers must be very small compared with what the haddocks 
destroy. The haddocks caught on this ground, and they congregate 
there in immense numbers, feed on nothing else, as we can show in 
the specimens we have preserved. It is, of course, during their 
spawning migration that the herring are exposed to a great deal of 
destruction. Between persistent fishing and the destruction of the 
eggs which has been pointed out, it is a wonder that they keep up 
