[From Trans. Biol. Soc, L'pool. Vol. V.] 



FIFTH ANNUAL EEPOKT of the LIVEEPOOL 



MAKINE BIOLOGICAL STATION now 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 LIVERPOOL MARINE BIOLOGY 



COMMITTEE, AND DIRECTOR OF THE PUFFIN 



ISLAND STATION. 



[Read 11th December, 1891.] 



The Year. 

 The past year has been a most unfortunate one for marine 

 biological work on account of the storms during the 

 summer and autumn which interfered with our usual 

 dredging expeditions in Liverpool Bay, and did great 

 damage to the boats at Puftin Island. Still work has been 

 carried on continuously at Puftin Island and in other parts 

 of the district, and as a result not a few additions to 

 knowledge, and advances along lines of investigation 

 previously started, claim record in this annual report. 



The Biological Station w^as not closed during last winter, 

 and will be kept open during the present winter also. 

 The keeper, Thomas Jarrett, and his wife are still in 

 charge. At the end of autumn (October 31st, 1890) the old 

 sailing boat, "Bonnie Boon," which had for some time 

 been leaking badly and required frequent patching and 

 caulking, was taken up to Cadnant (Menai Straits) and 

 beached for the winter. A thorough examination of her in 

 the spring showed that she was really past work. Some 

 of her planks were so rotten that they would not bear 

 further caulking, when a leak was stopped in one place 

 it broke out in another, and the boat did not seem worth 



