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THE council of the Marine Biological Association, in the report for 1902-1903, presented to the annual general meeting of the association on June 24, state that the work of the association has been considerably augmented in consequence of the fact that a commission has been accepted from H.M. Government to carry out in the southern British area the programme of scientific fishery investigation adopted by the International Conference, which met at Christiania in 1901. The work in connection with these investigations is being carried out in the southern part of the North Sea and in the English Channel. In connection with the North Sea work, a laboratory has been fitted out at Lowestoft, and the steam trawler Huxley has been hired. Some difficulty was experienced in obtaining a vessel suitable for the work with the funds provided by Government, but the council were fortunate in securing the assistance of one of their members, Mr. G. P. Bidder, who himself purchased the Huxley from her former owners and let her upon favourable terms to the association. Accommodation for the naturalists has been fitted up in the old fish-hold of the trawler, and a small laboratory has been built on deck.
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The Marine Biological Association . Nature 68, 331 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068331a0
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