The observations which form the subject of the following notes deal with only part of the total material on which my studies of teleostean reproduction, pursued during the last two years, have been made; but as the other and larger part of the material consists of preserved specimens of the young (chiefly post-larval) stages of fishes collected during the four years 1906 to 1909 inclusive, it is more convenient to deal with the egg collections of the past year first and to treat the whole collection of young fry separately in a further paper.

A Synopsis of the Aphroditidre of the English Channel by Mr. T. V. Hodgson is given in the Journal Marine Biological Association, Vol. VI, No. 2, 1900.

APhrodita aculeata, Lin. McIntosh, Mon. Brit. Ann., Vol. II, p. 247.

In 1908 Sir Charles Eliot published in the Journ. Mar. Biol. Assoc., Vol. VIII, No. 3, a paper “On the Genus Cumanotus”; in that paper he showed that Coryphella beaumonti, discovered and named by him in 1906, was to be referred to the above genus, which had been first established by myself in 1907 from a study of the Norwegian C. laticeps, described at the same time as a new species.

In his Report on the Actiniaria of the Norwegian North-Atlantic Expedition, D. C. Danielssen erected the genus Kodioides to receive the remarkable form which he named K. pedunculata, a single specimen of which was dredged at Station 35, July 5th, 1876, in 1050 fathoms, Lat. 63° 17′ N., Long. 1° 27′ W., the bottom being Biloculina Clay. The detailed description will be found in the section “Actinida,” Vol. V, pp. 77–82, PI. VI, Tigs. 3–4; XXII, 8–11; and XXIII, 1–4. The genus is there characterized as follows: “The body encrusted, piriform, with a long bare stem terminating in a pedal disc. Two series, containing a few retractile tentacles. 12 pairs of septa, of which 6 pairs perfect. Suckers on the encrusted portion of the body. No gullet-groove. Mesodermal, annular muscles. Acontia.”

Four ordinary meetings and one special meeting of the Council have been held during the year at which the average attendance has been thirteen. A Committee of the Council visited and inspected the Plymouth Laboratory.

The Council desire to express their thanks to the Councils of the Royal Society and of the Linnean Society, in whose rooms their meetings have been held.