44 TEANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



in our expeditions, but he attended as far as possible the 

 meetings, and we have always had his sympathy and 

 advice in our investigations. Unfortunately his long 

 expected report upon our local marine fishes was never 

 completed. In the first two volumes of the "Fauna" we 

 have two papers from his pen, one on the American Clam 

 (Venus mercenaria) in Vol. I., and a report upon the 

 L.M.B.C. Seals and Cetaceans in Vol. II. 



It is proposed that the vacancy caused by Mr. Moore's 

 death should be filled up by the election of His Excellency 

 Spencer Walpole, LL.D., Lieutenant-Grovernor of the 

 Isle of Man, who has kindly consented to serve on the 

 Committee. 



It is an encouraging and hopeful feature of our first 

 season's work at Port Erin to notice the number of new 

 recruits who are joining our School of Marine Biology. 

 In addition to those noted above as having done some 

 special work at the biological station. Dr. G. W. Chaster, 

 of Southport, is helping Mr. Leicester with Mollusca 

 and is also working at the Foraminifera of the district, 

 and Mr. P. J. F. Corbin is collecting records and speci- 

 mens of the fishes and is paying special attention to their 

 parasites. The Committee hope that not only may they 

 continue to draw together the young biologists of Liver- 

 pool and the neighbourhood, but that Manxmen interested 

 in Natural History may now be induced to work as students 

 at the Port Erin laboratory, and so fit themselves for in- 

 vestigating seriously the abundant marine fauna and fiora 

 of their Island. 



All faunistic work — the distribution and relations of 

 species, their variations, their habits, and "habitats," the 

 nature of their distinguishing characteristics and the 

 bearing of these upon the natural surroundings and mode 

 of life — all these, always matters of great interest to those 



