22 TEANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Liverpool Marine Biology Committee lias been so well put before us by 

 Professor Herdman that I need only appear before you as that obnoxious 

 individual, the practical man, and make a few remarks as to our proposed 

 arrangements for workers at the laboratory rather in the way of the argumen- 

 tum ad 2oocketum. Hitherto the work of the committee has been mainly 

 supported by subscriptions and donations from our philanthropic friends 

 interested in the work done, but not themselves actual workers, and ve trust 

 for an increased continuance of this most valued source of income. But we 

 anticipate that the beautiful and very accessible Marine Laboratory to-day 

 opened by his Excellency will attract a large number of working naturalists 

 and students both belonging to the Isle of Man and from various parts of 

 England who may frequently come for a few days or weeks at a time. It is 

 proposed that all such should have the use of the station as workers for a , 

 payment of 10s. per week, and it is further proposed that all annual subscribers 

 of one guinea and upwards shall have free access to the station and the use of 

 a working table at any time provided it be unoccupied — a record of all work 

 done being kept. 



A month ago I visited the })alatial marine station at Xaples, and there saw 

 English and foreign students at work. Now, there is no doubt a great 

 advantage in studying the marine launa of other districts, and a visit to 

 Naples will repay any one ; l)ut we happily know that Mona's Isle offers most 

 unusual advantages for this work as was am})ly shown by Edward Forbes, and 

 later by the work of our own connnittee, and I doubt if anywhere in the 

 United Kingdom we can now Hud a richer hunting ground, or a laboratory 

 with such beautiful surroundings as at the Port Erin Biological Station. I 

 sincerely thank your Excellency, and you gentlemen, for the hearty way in 

 which you have pro})osed and honoured this toast, and I trust that we may 

 have many other hap})y reunions between our Manx and English naturalists. 

 (Applause) . 



The toast of " the Manx Fisheries" was proposed by Mr. R. L. Ascroft, ot 

 the Lancashire Sea Fisheries Committee, and responded to by Mr. R. Garside 

 who gave some interesting details in regard to the Isle of Man Fisheries and 

 the Manx fishing fleet now working oft" the south coast of Ireland. "The 

 Liverpool Salvage Association and other Visitors" was proj^osed by Mr. R. J. 

 Harvey Gibson, and res]>onded to by Cajjtain Batchelor of the Salvage Associa- 

 tion and by Professor AVeiss of Owens College, Manchester. 



The proceedings throughout were of a very inspiriting nature, and in the 

 evening the party went on board the " IMallard " for a dredging expedition 

 in the bay, when tow-netting, both surface and bottom was conducted by 

 means of the electric light." 



