14 TEANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



permanent platform outside the laboratory there assembled a considerable 

 company. In addition to his Excellency, the Bishop, Professor Herdman, 

 and Mr. Thompson, the company included Sir James Poole (ex-Mayor of 

 Liverpool), the IMayor of Bootle, Professor Weiss (Manchester), Professor 

 Denny (Sheffield), Messrs. A. 0. Walker (Colwyn Bay), P. F. Kendall (Man- 

 chester), Arnold Watson, R. Ascroft, N. Caine, R. J. Harvey Gibson, 

 J. Lomas, A. Leicester (Liverpool), the Attorney-General of the Island 

 (Sir James Gell), Mr. James Gell (High Bailiff, Castletown), the Rev. F. B. 

 Walters (principal of King William's College), Dr. Clague (surgeon to his 

 Excellency's household), the Revs. E. Terrier, M.A., A. Newton, B. Brown, 

 C. H. Leece, H. T. E. Barlow (principal of the Bishop Wilson Theological 

 School, Bishop's Court), and A. Kermode (vicar of Onchan), Messrs. W. A. 

 Stevenson, H.K., W. Quine, H.K., W. B. Stevenson, A. W. Moore, H.K., 

 P. M. C Kermode, (secretary of the Isle of Man Natural History and Anti- 

 quarian Society), F. Gaskell (liverpool), A. R. Dwerryhouse, A. F. Dumergue, 

 M. Lamart, W. S. Henderson, S. R. Christopher, Capt. Nowell, R. Garside, 

 W. Shimmin, C. T. C. Callow, Capt. Batchelor, H. AVilliams, R. Craig, 

 W. R. Wareing. J. Coventry, Dr. Hanitsch, Dr. Ellis, Professor Stevenson, 

 G. H. Quayle, J. C. Crellin, H.K., H. Kelly, J. Clague, C Squires, T. Clague, 

 T. Costain, E. Allen, J. McArd, R. Moore, W. Davidson, Aylmer Ogden, 

 &c., &c., and a number of ladies. 



Professor Herdman then, on behalf of the L.M.B.C, addressed the Governor, 

 and having made brief reference to the object of their biological investigations, 

 asked him to accept the volumes already published on the '•' Fauna and Flora 

 of Liverpool Bay," and having also presented His Excellency and the Bishop, 

 each with a specially bound copy of the collected annual reports upon the 

 former station at Puffin Island, requested the Governor to declare the station 

 open for scientific work. 



The Governor said : — Professor Herdman, my lord, ladies, and gentlemen, 

 — I have, in the first instance, to express to you, sir, and to your Committee, 

 my thanks for presenting me with these volumes, the contents of which I am 

 sure I shall read with interest and advantage ; they will remind us, at any 

 rate, that you, who have come here to-day, have done mucih to promote that 

 cause of biological science to which this station is to be devoted. In your 

 station at Puffin Island, on the coast of Anglesey, as I know from reading 

 your reports, you have done nmch to illustrate this science. You have moved 

 now from the IMona of Tacitus to the Mona of Cfesar — (hear, hear, and ap- 

 plause,)— and having exhausted, as I believe you have done, the fauna of the 

 Menai Straits, you have come to this Island, where the population has for 

 centuries had a deep stake in the harvest of the sea, and where I believe you 

 will find that our fauna is enriched by those warm currents that find their 

 way hither from the vast Atlantic Ocean. Some of you may possibly imagine 



