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tions on Lucernarians, which will form the subject of a 

 short paper by himself, to be laid before the Biological 

 Society at an early meeting. Mr. Beamnont reports to 

 me that he collected two species of Lucernarians under 

 stones on the shore, between the boat jetty and the break- 

 water on the south side of Port Erin harbour. The one 

 species was Lucernaria quadricornis, Miiller; the other he 

 identifies as Depastriun cijathiforme, Sars, and of this 

 two varieties, a hght reddish brown and a dark purple, 

 occur — both being adult. 



Mr. E. T. Browne, 

 B.A., was at the Station 

 for some wrecks in July 

 and August, and spent 

 most of his time in stud}^- 

 ing the "plankton" or 

 surface life. Amongst 

 the animals he collected 

 and identified were the 

 following which had 

 not been previously re- 

 corded : — Tiara j) ilea ta 

 { = Oceania episcopalis, Forb.), Aglaophenia tubulifera, 

 with Corbulae, and Anceits maxillaris (found before but 

 not recorded), male and female with eggs, inside Sycandra 

 compressa on the rocks near the laboratory. 



Mr. Chadwick was occupied in collecting and preserving 

 material for his work upon the minute structure of Star- 

 fishes, which will form the subject of a paper to be read 

 before the Biological Society in spring. 



The faunistic work of other investigators, and of some 

 members of the Committee who were at the station, will 

 be found referred to further on ; while a few of the workers 

 such as Mr. Chaudhuri, beino^ students who were making 



wmi^smi^mik 



Fig 11. The Lamiuarian Zone at low tide. 

 Good Collectiiicc Ground. 



