Alderman John Dent, J.P., Chairman of the North- 
umberland Sea Fisheries Committee, died on the 
20tli April, 1907. To him we owe the introduction 
of the Northumberland investigations, the results of 
which have been published annually in this series of 
reports. The trawling and migration experiments would 
have been impossible if the Committee had not had the 
use of his steam yacht the “ Stanley,” which was 
also employed in many fruitful dredging expeditions. 
Through his generosity the first Cullercoats Laboratory 
was established in 1897 ; and it was in great measure 
by his keen interest in the work that the scheme for 
the large modern building now being constructed at 
Cullercoats was successfully carried out. His hobby 
was sea fishing, and he took a great interest in every- 
thing appertaining to sea fisheries, and in any movement 
calculated to improve them. It is with profound regret 
that we have to record his death. 
