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found had been carried to Ireland, and they are chiefly 

 ones that had been set free in the southern part of the 

 district (between Liverpool and Holyhead) and off the 

 Isle of Man. The bottles set free along the Lancashire 

 Coast and in Morecambe Bay seem chiefly to have been 

 carried to the south and west, e.g., to about Mostyn, in 

 North Wales, and Douglas, Isle of Man. It is only a few 

 exceptional ones so far that have been carried out of our 

 area through the North Channel. 



Plate I. shows by the dark dashes the lines along which 

 the drift bottles have been set free, and the arrow heads 

 give some idea of the direction which some of the bottles 

 have apparently taken. 



Publications. 



Sufficient material has now been accumulated to form 

 a new volume of the "Fauna of Liverpool Bay." Con- 

 sequently, Volume IV. will be issued early in 1895, and 

 will contain, in addition to the reports and papers which 

 were mentioned last year as printed off, the Supplemen- 

 tary Eeport on the Hydroid Zoophytes, by Miss L. R. 

 Thornely ; a list of the Nemertida found at Port Erin, by 

 Messrs. Beaumont and Vanstone ; a revision of the 

 Nomenclature and Classification of British Sponges, by 

 Dr. Hanitsch ; a Eeport on the Fishes of the District, by 

 Professor Herdman ; a paper on Synapta, hj Mi. Chad- 

 wick, and one on the Tube-building Habits of Panthalis, 

 by Mr. Watson ; a report on the L. M. B. C. Medusae, by 

 Mr. Edw. T. Browne ; and a Supplementary Report on 

 Copepoda, by Mr. I. C. Thompson. 



It has been suggested that a general index should now 

 be drawn up to the species recorded in the volumes on 

 the Fauna and Flora of Liverpool Bay. There can be 

 no doubt that such an index would be useful, and wiU 



