MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT POET ERIN. 13 



submarine electric lights was carried on after dark in 

 the bay. 



Most of the Liverpool party arrived at Port Erin on 

 the Friday afternoon for the purpose of completing the 

 preparations for the opening, such as hanging diagrams 

 and charts on the walls of the laboratory and unpacking 

 the vessels and instruments. During the following fore- 

 noon all were busily engaged in collecting specimens. A 

 party went out dredging towards the Calf Island in the 

 " Mallard," others worked from a small boat in the bay, 

 while others searched the shore pools in the immediate 

 neighbourhood. The specimens were brought alive to the 

 laboratory and arranged in the aquaria and dishes and 

 under microscopes in order that the visitors in the after- 

 noon might see the place as far as possible in working 

 order and gain an intelligent idea of the objects and 

 methods of marine biological investigation. The following 

 account of the more public functions of the day, the open- 

 ing ceremony and the luncheon, is extracted, with some 

 abbreviation, from the daily papers.* 



"His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, Spencer Walpole, Esq., LL.D., 

 and the Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man, Dr. Straton, were met at the Port 

 Erin Railway Station shortly before 1 o'clock by the following members of 

 theL.M.B.C, Prof. Herdman (Director), Mr. I. C. Thompson (Hon. Sec), 

 Sir James Poole, Mr. J. Vicars (Mayor of Bootle), Mr. A. 0. Walker, Mr. A. 

 Leicester, Mr. R, J. Harvey Gibson, and a number of other naturalists 

 including ]\Ir. A. AV. Moore, President, and Mr. P. M. C. Kermode, Secretary 

 of the Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society. The Governor 

 was accompanied by Miss Walpole; and Sir James Gell, Mr. J. S. Gell, 

 Dr. Walters, and a number of other gentlemen and ladies from various parts 

 of the island soon joined the party which then proceeded to the Bellevue 

 Hotel, the road to which and down to the Biological Station on the shore was 

 lined with flags and other decorations. 



The little station at the foot of the cliff was soon reached, and on the 



* See '• Isle of Man Times," &c., for June 11th, Liverpool " Daily Post " 

 and "Mercury" for June 6th, and "Nature" for June 16th, 1892. 



