Report of Representative on Great Barrier Reef Committee.

The annual meeting of the Committee was held at Brisbane on November 4, 1955.

A considerable amount of building, especially in fitting out the laboratory wing of the Heron Island Biological Station, has been carried out during the year. There is on the island a library of between 60 and 70 volumes of reference works bound in insect and damp proof plastic material. Students, scientists, Fulbright scholars, and underwater photographers have visited the island during the year.

The Government subsidy to the station is £750 per annum.

The estimate for completing the station is £5,750, of which £3,050 has still to be raised. The balance of the General Fund is £1,081, and of the Heron Island Biological Research Station Fund, £1,475 (including Government subsidy and donation to come).

W. R. B. Oliver.