8 TEANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



of Mr. Fell, Mr. Muspratt, Mr. Ascroft, and Mr. Dawson 

 of the Fisheries Committee, Dr. Chaster and several others 

 of the Southport Natural Science Society, and Mr. 

 Thompson, Mr. Leicester, Mr. Comber, Mr. W. J. 

 Stewart, the Mayor of Bootle, and others of our own 

 Committee. Although many specimens were obtained on 

 this occasion none, so far as yet determined, were specially 

 noteworthy or new to our records, except some fine 

 typical specimens of the Foraminifer Vaginulina linearis 

 obtained from 20 fins., about 23 miles out from Southport. 

 Later in the summer a few of the Southport biologists 

 went out again for a day's dredging in the " Mavis." 

 They report having found good ground and got good 

 hauls (Ascidians, &c.). Unfortunately our Committee 

 were not able to take part in that expedition, and the 

 specimens were not preserved nor recorded. 



On September 26th we chartered the tug '' Spindrift " 

 for the day, and a considerable party left the Landing 

 Stage in the morning, hoping to have some dredging in 

 that central area, half-way to the Isle of Man, which 

 seems so difficult to reach on our expeditions. With our 

 usual luck we found on getting out of the river that there 

 was a heavy sea, and although we persevered for some 

 hours it was getting worse all the time, and so about 

 one o'clock we turned back and had some hauls of the 

 trawl in the afternoon in the Rock Channel where we got 

 Starfishes, Zoophytes, Polyzoa, and other common things, 

 none of them new to the locality. 



SuEFACE Fauna. 



Mr. Thompson, who has been receiving and examining 

 the tow-nettings taken by the keeper at Puffin Island 

 throughout the year and also those collected on the few 

 expeditions, says that although valuable for statistical 



