MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN. 5 



other exploring expeditions have been carried on, as the 

 result of which three illustrated volumes of reports have 

 already been published (" Fauna of Liverpool Bay," vols. 

 I — III.). The Puffin Island establishment has been very 

 useful to the Committee, and well worth the small annual 

 expenditure required for its modest outfit. It has been 

 used by some students of the local Colleges who wished 

 to gain a general knowledge of the common marine 

 animals and plants in a living state, and by a considerable 

 number of specialists who went there to make observa- 

 tions, or who had the material for their investigations 

 collected there and sent to them. 



It has been felt however by the Committee for some 

 time that a station which was more readily accessible from 

 Liverpool, and with hotel or lodging accommodation on the 

 spot, would enable their specialists to do more w^ork, and 

 be of more use to students and investigators generally. 

 Also it was becoming evident that after five years work 

 on the shores of the small island the greater number of 



Fig. '1. Collecting ground at Puftin Island. 



the plants and animals had been collected and examined, 

 and that a change to a new locality w^ith a rich fauna and 

 a more extended and varied line of coast would yield 



