MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION ON PUFFIN ISLAND. 7 



organize an expedition during Whit-week, ])ut most un- 

 fortunately at the last moment when our party was 

 assembled ready to embark for a 4 or 5 days cruise it was 

 found to be so rough outside the river, and the telegraphic 

 reports from Hol34iead were so bad, that the captain and 

 the officials of the Salvage Association reluctantly decided 

 that it was not fit for the '* Hyaena" to go, so the expedi- 

 tion was postponed for a few weeks. The decision, 

 although disappointing at the moment, was a wise one, 

 as it blew hard for the next three days, and even if the 

 ''Hygena" had succeeded in reaching the north coast of 

 Anglesey, our proposed destination, it was clear from the 

 weather reports that we could have done no w^ork there. 

 A few of our party from other towns, who were to join us 

 at Beaumaris, unfortunately did not hear of the change of 

 plan in time and reached the Menai Straits next day by 

 train, and spent a day or two there dredging in sheltered 

 waters. 



A second time, a few^ w^eeks later, the party was organ- 

 ized and all arrangements made, when a couple of days 

 before the proposed start a disastrous collision occurred 

 in the Mersey, a steamer was sunk, and the "Hyaena" 

 was consequently called off to her ordinary salvage duties. 

 The Salvage Association most kindly offered to let us have 

 the boat later in the summer, but we were unable to take 

 advantage of it then, and must look forward to better luck 

 and less boisterous w^eather next spring. 



Early in June the Sea Fisheries Committee, through 

 their superintendent, Mr. E. A. Dawson, invited us along 

 with some of the Southport Biologists to organize a single 

 day dredging trip in their new Fisheries steamer " The 

 Mavis." On this occasion (June 20th) we had beautiful 

 weather, and did a good deal of dredging and tow-netthig 

 in the neighbourhood of Southport. The party consisted 



