VI. L.M.B.C. REPORT III. 



during the past five years, and has been well worth the 

 small annual expenditure required for its modest outfit ; but 

 it has been felt for the last j^ear or so that a station at some 

 place more readily accessible from Liverpool and with hotel 

 or lodging accommodation obtainable on the spot, would 

 enable their members to do more work, and al?o be of 

 more use both to students and to investigators. Also it 

 w^as becoming evident tliat after five years work upon the 

 very limited ground presented by the shores of the small 

 island tlie greater number of the plants and animals had 

 been collected and examined, and that a change to a new 

 locality with a rich fauna and a more extended line of 

 coast would yield increased material for faunistic work ; 

 and so after a careful consideration of various sites, Port 

 Erin at the South end of the Isle of Man, was chosen as 

 the best available place. It is not necessary now to give 

 any further details, as this is rather the closing of the 

 Puffin Id. record than any account of the work at the new 

 laboratory, and as a full description of the Port Erin 

 Station and its surroundings will be given in the next 

 L.M.B.C. annual report. It is sufficient to state that the 

 new Biological Station was formally declared open for 

 scientific work by His Excellency Spencer Walpole, Lieut. - 

 Governor of the Isle of Man, on June 4th, and that since 

 then it has been and is now occupied by several zoologists, 

 while others are going across during August and Sep- 

 tember, so that there is every prospect that this first 

 season will show a good record of work done. 



In the introduction to tlie last volume of reports (June, 

 1889) it was stated that 1456 species of marine animals 

 and plants had been recorded as the result of the L.M.B.C. 

 investigations : with the additional species (229) referred 

 to in tlie present volume tlie number is now brought up 

 to 1G85. Of these additions, 11 have not been previously 



