SEA-FISHERIES LABORATORY. 125. 
THE HYDROGRAPHIC WORK IN THE IRISH 
SEA DURING 1910. 
By Henry Bassett, Jun., D.Sc., Po.D., Assistant 
Lecturer in Chemistry in the University of Liverpool. 
For various reasons the hydrographic observations 
made by us in the Irish Sea during 1910 have not been 
so numerous as we should have liked. We have only 
been able to make quarterly observations at the seven 
chief stations—those on the lines Piel Gas Buoy—Calf 
of Man, and Calf of Man—Holyhead. 
Mr. J. Johnstone, B.Sc., has, as usual, collected the 
samples. 
The results obtained seem to fully bear out the 
conclusions we have come to in former reports. 
The salinities at the various stations during 1910 
were very similar to those found during 1909, and it 1s 
clear that the type of drift was the same during the two 
years. This was forecasted in last year’s report from the 
results for February, 1910, which were to hand at the 
time of publication. 
In the same report I discussed the possible 
connection between time of arrival and strength of the 
Gulf Stream Drift and the weather in these islands.* 
Events seem to have more or less justified the gloomy 
forebodings with regard to the summer of 1910 which I 
made in February of that year. 
I do not, however, wish to insist too much upon this 
point, for the agreement of result and forecast may be 
merely accidental, but it is in any case interesting te 
see that in two successive years we find both a late and 
*See also ‘‘ Nature’’ LXXXIV., 44 (1910). 
