10 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
A course of lectures and demonstrations on 
Oceanography, conducted during the first fortnight in 
August by Professor Herdman, Dr. Roaf, and Dr. Dakir, 
was attended by the following students : — 
Miss Drummond (Edinburgh). Mr. Hara (Japan and Berlin). 
Miss Gibson (Cardiff). Mr. Ritchie (Edinburgh). 
Miss Jones (Cardiff). Mr. Burfield (Cambridge). 
Miss Stewart (Edinburgh). Mr. Andrews (Cambridge). 
Curator’s REporT. 
Mr. Chadwick reports as follows :— 
‘“Tt is very gratifying to be able to report a still 
further increase, during the past year, in the number 
of researchers and students who have resorted to our 
laboratories. Representatives of the Universities of 
Cambridge, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and 
Belfast, the University College of Reading, the Bedford 
College for Women, London, the Royal Scottish Museum, 
Edinburgh, the ‘Challenger’ Expedition Office, and 
several other institutions numbered altogether fifty-seven. 
workers, no less than thirty-nine of whom occupied the 
laboratories during the Easter vacation, when tables were 
at a premium, and inconvenience was made tolerable only 
by the prevailing good fellowship. The Marine Plankton 
work has been carried on with almost complete regu- 
larity, three gatherings, including a vertical haul near 
the buoy that marks the entrance to the bay and one each 
with the fine and the coarse nets respectively, over the 
prescribed course in the bay, having been taken twice a 
week throughout the year. So much of the Curator’s time 
has been claimed by other work that he has not been 
able to take more than a small share of estimation and 
qualitative analysis of the samples. 
‘“ The number of visitors to the Aquarium during the 
year was 12,950. This again shows some falling off; 
