MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN. 



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Irish Sea. '' This committee consists of Professor Haddon, 

 Mr. W. E. Hoyle, Mr. Geo. Brook, Mr. A. 0. Walker, Mr. 

 I. C. Thompson (Secretary) and Professor Herdman 

 (Chairman)," and the grant will be expended in providing 

 a series of short dredging expeditions to the more 

 miknown parts of the area. The first of these British 

 Association Committee expeditions was organized at the 

 end of September when the steam trawler " Lady Loch " 

 of Douglas was hired for September 24th. The wind was 

 so strong and the sea so heavy that it was quite impossible 

 to do any work off the southern and western sides of the 

 island, so we steamed up the eastern side and spent the 

 day in dredging in the neighbourhood of Laxey at the fol- 

 lowing locahties : 



Fig. 16. Emptying the Iredge on deck. 



1. Off Clay Head, 20 fms., several hauls ; varied bottom. 

 Polymastia rohusta, Suberites domuncula, Amphilechis 

 incrustans, Spongelia fragilis (large specimens), and a 



