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Miss Lebour continues the list of Mollusca in a paper dealing 
with some interesting finds obtained for the most part at the 
excursions this year. I beg to offer, also, a preliminary paper on 
the Marine Amphipoda of Northumberland. 
A meeting was held at North Shields early in the year with 
reference to the proposed attempt to get the captains and crews of 
trawl fishing boats to artificially fertilize and return to the water 
the ripe ova of the fishes during the spawning season. Certain of 
the captains attended the laboratory at Cullercoats and received 
instruction on the subject and also as to the life-histories of the food 
fishes. A pamphlet was published and circulated amongst the crews 
likewise. Many of the captains carried out the instructions, and we 
estimate that during the last spawning season at the very least some 
500,000,000 fertilized ova of cod and plaice were returned to the sea. 
The question of the chance of recovery of fishes captured in the 
trawl and returned to the sea is discussed in a short article. 
The experiments with mussels on the Coquet showed that such 
places are capable of development for the supply of mussel bait to 
the fishermen. 
Tables showing the catches of crabs and lobsters are again con- 
tributed by Messrs. Fawcus and Douglas. 
Conferences were this year held at certain of the southern villages. 
The recommendations made by the fishermen deserve the careful 
consideration of the Committee. 
The laboratory was utilised this year by Miss K. A. Smith, 
Birmingham, and by Mr. W. T. Gibson, London. 
Alexander Meek. 
