RV Huxley contribution to the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (Scotland, the northern section, was treated differently). Fishery investigations began in September 1902 under the directorship of Walter Garstang. The work consisted of systematic exploration of the North Sea trawling grounds at different seasons of the year, together with studies of growth and migration of plaice "Pleuronectes platessa" based on tagging experiments, examination of the food of fish and the nature of the seabed. Detailed catch records from North Sea survey stations between 1902 and 1903 were summarised in a report published by Garstang in 1905. Research continued until
Vietnamese leopard gecko Vietnamese leopard gecko The Vietnamese leopard gecko or Chinese tiger gecko ("Goniurosaurus araneus") is a species of lizards in the family Eublepharidae. It is endemic to the Cao Bằng Province of Vietnam. The scientific species name, is from the Latin, "aranea", which means "spider", due to the spindly, spider-like form of this species. The Vietnamese Tiger gecko is dark gray in color and has lots of black spots and four wide orange bands across the back. Its eyes are dark reddish brown. "Goniurosaurus araneus" is distinguished from other species of the same genus by its elongated dorsal scales. This gecko