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thoroughly familiar with the forms of which they treat, will be found of value 

 by students of Biology in our laboratories and in marine stations, and will be 

 welcomed by many others working privately at marine natural history. 



It is proposed that the forms selected should, as far as possible, be common 

 Irish Sea animals and plants, of which no adequate account already exists in 

 any text-book. 



The first three Memoirs will be issued before the end of 1899, and others 

 will follow, it is hoped, in rapid succession : — Memoir I. Ascidia, W. A. Herd- 

 man ; Memoir II. Cockle, J. Johnstone ; Memoir III. Echinus, H. C. Chadwick ; 

 Dendronotus, J. A. Clubb ; Zostera, R. J. Harvey Gibson ; Halidrys, C. E. 

 Jones j Godium, R. J. H. Gibson and Helen Auld ; Diatoms, F. E. Weiss ; 

 Gigartina, O. V. Darbishire ; Alcyonium, S. J. Hickson ; Plaice, F. J. Cole 

 and J. Johnstone ; Botrylloides, W. A. Herdman ; Cuttle-fish, W. E. Hoyle ; 

 Ostracod, Andrew Scott ; Patella, J. R. Ainsworth Davis ; Calamis, I. C. 

 Thompson ; Actinia, J. A. Clubb ; Polyzoon, Laura R. Thornely ; Calcareous 

 Sponge, R. Hanitsch ; Porpoise, A. M. Paterson ; Arenicola, J. H. Ashworth ; 

 Oyster, W. A. Herdman. 



The editor acknowledges a welcome donation of £100 from Mr. F. H. 

 Gossage of Woolton, wdiich has met the expense of preparing the plates in 

 illustration of the first few memoirs, and so has enabled the Committee to 

 commence the publication of the series sooner than would otherwise have been 

 possible. 



The Committee desire to intimate that no copies of these memoirs will be 

 presented or exchanged, as the prices have been fixed so low that most of the 

 copies will have to be sold to meet the cost of production. 



The memoirs may be obtained, post free at the net prices stated, from the 

 Hon. Treasurer, Mr. I. C. Thompson, 53 Croxteth Road, Liverpool ; Professor 

 Herdman, University College, Liverpool ; or the Curator, Biological Station, 

 Port Erin, Isle of Man. 



The Millport Marine Biological Station issues an appeal for a sum of £300, 

 required for the pumping and circulating apparatus. The fund for this is to be 

 kept independent of the general maintenance accounts. The Millport Marine 

 Station has the distinction of being a scientific institution founded and main- 

 tained by private liberality on the part of persons interested in the advance- 

 ment of science, and it will be a matter for congratulation if, before the 

 Glasgow meeting of the British Association in 1901, its equipment is complete 

 in the important department to which this appeal has special reference. 



We read in Science that teachers in Philadelphia public schools are now 

 allowed to take their classes for a half-day once or twice a year to the Zoological 

 Gardens and Fairmount Park, the visit counting as part of the regular class 

 duties. 



Science reports some of the general results of the third Princeton expedition 

 to Patagonia, conducted by Mr. J. B. Hatcher and his assistant Mr. O. A. 

 Paterson. 



(1) A good preliminary geological survey of that part of southern South 

 America lying between the Andes on the west and the Atlantic on the east, 

 and between the Straits of Magellan and the forty-seventh parallel of south 

 latitude, sufficient to serve as a basis for a geological map of the region. 



(2) Very extensive and complete collections of fossils from all the horizons 

 known to that region, with the exception of the Pyrotherium beds. 



(3) The discovery of four distinct and previously unreported geological 

 horizons. 



(4) A collection of more than a thousand skins and skeletons of recent birds 

 and mammals. 



(5) Extensive collections of the freshwater, terrestrial, and littoral inverte- 

 brates. 



