4 TEANSACTIONS LIVEEPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



consider at least two important functions which it can 

 perform : — (1) It can supply material and afford oppor- 

 tunities for their investigations to the Committee and to 

 other specialists and so be a means of adding to knowledge, 

 and (2) it will enable advanced science students and young 

 graduates from our Colleges to become acquainted with 

 marine animals in the living state, and in various stages 

 of development, and will stimulate them to, and give them 

 opportunities of commencing, research work. 



The Liverpool Marine Biology Committee was institu- 

 ted in 1885 for the purpose of investigating scientifically 

 the Fauna and Flora of Liverpool Bay and the neighbour- 

 ing parts of the Irish Sea, an area usually referred to for 



Fig. 1. Map of the L.M.B.C District. H, Hilbie Id., P, Pumii Id., 

 E, Port Erin. 



sliort as tli(! L.M.B.C. district. The Committee established 

 a small biological station on Puffin Island off the North 

 coast of Anglesey, in 1887 ; and for tlie last five years 

 this station has been kept up, and constant dredging and 



