THIED ANNUAL EEPORT of the LIVEBPOOL 



MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION on 



PUFFIN ISLAND. 



By W. A. Herdman, D.Sc, F.L.S., F.R.S.E., 



DERBY PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LIVERPOOL ; CHAIRMAN 

 OF THE Ln^ERPOOL MARINE BIOLOGY COMMITTEE, AND DIRECTOR OF THE STATION. 



[Read 13th December, 1889.] 



DuEiNG the past year the work of the Liverpool Marine 

 Biology Committee has been carried on actively at Puffm 

 Island and elsewhere in the district, and has resulted in 

 an miusTially large number of events and observations 

 worthy of record in this annual report. The first of these 

 reports was issued after the publication of vol. i. of the 

 "Fauna of Liverpool Bay," and the greater part of it was 

 devoted to an account of the establishment of our 

 Biological Station on Puffin Island ; while the second 

 annual report was largely occupied by a description of the 

 experiments with the submarine electric light, a method 

 which we were the first in Europe to apply to purposes of 

 biological investigation. On the present occasion I have 

 to report, amongst other things, upon the further develop- 

 ment of both of these schemes, viz. (1) the publication of 

 vol. ii. of the "Fauna," chiefly as an outcome of the work 

 carried on at the Puffin Island Station, and (2) the 

 additional electric light experiments which were made 

 during the five days cruise of the s.s. "Hysena," at the 

 Isle of Man last Easter, and which resulted in the capture 

 of a large number of rare and interesting Crustacea. 



Publications. 



The first volume of the "Fauna" was published in 

 the summer of 1886, as an Appendix to vol. xl. of the 



