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Galathea nexa, Crangon nanus, Mysis inerinis, Cwna 

 edwardsii (with ova), Atylus uncinatus (new to Britain), 

 Autonoe longipes, Lilljehorgia pallida, Podocerus ocius, 

 Drijope irrorata, and Unciola planipes were all added to 

 our lists on this occasion. 



Most of the material collected during this expedition, 

 coming as it did too late for insertion in the detailed 

 reports which make up vol. ii. of the "Fauna," has not 

 yet been distributed to our workers. Miss L. E. Thornely, 

 who has kindly undertaken to sort out the collection into 

 groups and identify the Hydroida, tells me that we have 

 now collected twenty-nine species of Zoophytes, from the 

 immediate neighbourhood of Puffin Island, including a 

 number of forms not previously known from that part 

 of our district ; and Mr. Halls, who is working in the 

 zoological laboratory at the Zoophytes collected off the 

 south end of the Isle of Man, reports that he has identified 

 fourteen species, and is now examining a mass of new 

 material. 



For a couple of days after the "Spindrift" expedition of 

 8th June, most of the dredging party stayed on Puffin 

 Island, and a great deal of investigation was carried on, 

 there being twelve biologists at work, the largest number 

 since the opening of the station. Mr. J. Vicars devoted 

 the time entirely to collecting and identifying the land 

 plants of the island, and added considerably to the list 

 drawn up by Mr. Button (Chester) and Dr. C. H. Hurst 

 (Manchester) in 1888 ; * Mr. Alf. Leicester collected land 

 MoUusca, and succeeded in obtaining sixteen species, upon 

 which he has submitted a short report to the Biological 

 Society ; while the rest of the party were at work either 

 on the shore or in the laboratory. A large number of 



* This list, still further augmented by Mr. Harvey Gibson and Professor 

 McN"ab, is published as Appendix (A) of this report, 



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