2 LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of 

 Liverpool, and also as a separate volume.* Later on in 

 the same year the Liverpool Biological Society was 

 founded, chiefly as a result of the L.M.B.C. investi- 

 gations, and through the instrumentality of the members 

 of that Committee, and it was then felt that this would 

 in future be the proper scientific society before which 

 to lay all reports upon the biology of the district. The 

 various papers dealing with the investigations at Puffin 

 Island and the results of the dredging expeditions have 

 therefore been duly read before the Liverpool Biological 

 Society during the last two sessions (1887-88 and 1888-89), 

 and have been published in the "Proceedings" (vols. ii. 

 and iii.). 



The L.M.B.C. have now to thank the Council of the 

 Biological Society for allowing extra copies of these 

 reports to be printed, in order that they might be collected 

 and issued as the second volume of the " Fauna of 

 Liverpool Bay." This volume of 240 pages and 12 plates 

 appeared in July, 1889, and contains sixteen articles, by 

 ten authors, dealing with various groups, from Diatoms 

 up to Seals and Cetaceans. It is proposed to contiiiue 

 this plan of publication, to communicate the papers in 

 the first place to the Biological Society, and to issue 

 successive volumes of collected reports upon the fauna 

 and flora of the district as they are ready, probably at 

 intervals of a few years. 



The total number of species which we have recorded is 

 now 1456, and of the additions in this last volume of the 

 "Fauna" twenty-one have not been previously found in 

 British seas, and nine (a Sponge, four Copepoda, two 



* "Fauna of Liverpool Bay," Report i. London: Longmans, Green and Co. 

 1886. 372 pp. and 12 pis. 



