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nient in hatching, and show what can be done even on a 

 very small scale and with very limited resources. 



Dredging Expeditions. 



During the year 1894 the following dredging expeditions 

 in steamers have been arranged, partly with the help of 

 the small Committee of the British Association alluded to 

 ui former reports. This B. A. Committee reported to 

 the Oxford meeting of the Association, and was then 

 re-appointed for another year, with the addition of Pro- 

 fessor Weiss to cover the Marine Flora, and of Mr. 

 Clement Keid to aid in working out the Geology of the 

 floor of the sea : — 



1. March 20-25th. At Easter the Committee spent some 

 days in shore-collecting at the southern end of the Isle of 

 Man, and hired the steam trawler "■ Lady Loch " for 

 two days' dredging. On the first day the floor of the sea 

 to the north of Port Erin from Fleshwick to Contrary 

 Head at Peel was worked at twelve stations within four 

 miles of the coast, and at depths from 10 to 20 fathoms. 

 On the second day nine stations off the west of the Calf 

 Island at depths from 20 to 25 fathoms were dredged. 



March 24th. 1. West of Fleshwick Ba.y, a quarter mile 

 off shore, 13 fathoms ; bottom fine sand and broken 

 shells, with* Gliona celata, Gemellaria loricata, Cauda 

 reptans, Ophiura ciliaris, Galathea intermedia, Portunus 

 arcuatus, Aporrhais pes-pelicani, Trochiis magus, Ascidia 

 virginea. 



2. West of Fleshwick, further north, half a mile off 



* The few species picked out for mention in each haul are not to be 

 regarded as the rarest forms oliserved. In some cases tliey are the com- 

 monest. They are the forms wliich at the time seemed to us the mo.st 

 conspicuous and characteristic of the haul — the most noteworthy inhabitants 

 of the ground. 



