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E. W. L. Holt, A. J. Smith, T. V. Hodgson, and Stephen Pace (Pace, 1904). Besides 

 this, intensive work on the pigments (MacMunn, 1889), the spicules (Woodland, 1907) 

 and the development of the oocyte (Chubb, 1906) has also been done here. 



The other British biological station noteworthy for the output of information re- 

 garding this species as a result of local studies is that at Port Erin, Isle of Man, origi- 

 nally under the direction of the Liverpool Marine Biology Committee. This committee, 

 organized in March 1885 through the efforts of Professor Sir William A. Herdman of 

 the University of Liverpool, immediately began a detailed study of the fauna and flora 

 of the region. A station was opened on Puffin Island, a small island off the north 

 coast of Anglesea, which served as a base of operations for five years. Then, in 1892, 

 the first station at Port Erin was established, to be superseded by the present station 

 at the same place in 1902. 



Known from the Isle of Man since 1831 (Forbes, 1831, 1835), the local distribution 

 of feather stars in this region was worked out in great detail by Professor Herdman 

 (1881, 1884, 1886, 1889, 1890, 1891, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1901, 1902, 1906) and by 

 Mr. Herbert C. Chadwick (1889, 1907). 



The investigations of Forbes, and especially those of his successors Sir Wyville 

 Thomson and Dr. W. B. Carpenter, supplemented by the records of Dr. John Grieve 

 and others, had indicated that the rosy feather star was unusually abundant in the Clyde 

 region. Here lived Dr. David Robertson, the "Cumbrae naturalist," known for many 

 years as a student and collector of the marine life on the shores of his island home. 

 Sir John Murray, who had served on the Challenger expedition, became actively inter- 

 ested in the region in 1884, and in collaboration with Dr. Robertson and Dr. H. R. Mill 

 prosecuted biological investigations for several years, using two small boats, the Medusa 

 and the Ark. 



The enthusiastic work of these men soon attracted attention, and finally resulted 

 in the establishment in 1897 of the Millport station on land secured for a merely nominal 

 rental from the Marquess of Bute. In addition to giving the use of his land for the 

 station, Lord Bute did a great deal in other ways to further biological investigation 

 here. His family name of Stuart is familiar to all American biologists through the 

 dedication of the genus Stewartia (Ternstroemiaceae) to one of his antecedents. 



One of the naval officers on the Challenger was Lieut. Lord George Granville 

 Campbell, a son of the eighth Duke of Argyll. The Duke took a great interest in 

 various branches of science, and especially in Sir John Murray's work on the Clyde, 

 and occasionally accompanied him for a cruise when that work took the Medusa to 

 the neighborhood of Inveraray where he resided. 



Information regarding the occurrence of the rosy feather star in this area, pub- 

 lished when the Millport station was represented by the floating laboratory Ark 

 (1885-1900), from which the work was carried on, is given by Dendy (1886), Henderson 

 (1887), Hoyle (1889) and Chopin (1895), while a most excellent summary of its local 

 distribution, based on the records accumulated by Sir John Murray and his associates 

 between 1884 and 1892, was published by Chumley (1918). 



From two other British biological stations has come information regarding the 

 rosy feather star. For many years Mr. James Hornell maintained a private marine 

 laboratory in a magnificent location in the island of Jersey (1893), but this was dis- 

 continued when he took up the fisheries work in Ceylon in 1902. The Dove Marine 

 Laboratory founded by Prof. Alexander Meek at Cullercoats, near Newcastle, is 



