26 LIVERPOOL MARINE BIOLOGY COMMITTEE REPORT. 



6. Doris subquadrata. Dee ; once (the second known specimen). 



7. depressa. Dee; once. 



8. Polycera lessonii. Between Mersey and Dee ; once. 



9. ocellata. Mersey and Dee ; occasional. 



10. Ancula cristata. Mersey and Dee ; common. 



11. Tritonia homhergii. Mersey and Dee ; occasional. 



12. pleheia. Mersey and Dee ; occasional. 



13. Dendronotus arboresoens. Mersey and Dee ; common 



14. Doto Goronata. Mersey and Dee ; very common 



15. Eolis papulosa. Mersey and Dee ; common. 

 16. coronata. Mersey and Dee ; common. 



17. drummondi. Mersey and Dee ; very common. 



18. rufibranchialis. Mersey and Dee ; not uncommon. 



19. landsburgii. Mersey and Dee ; rare. 



20. Goncinna. Mersey ; common (the second known locality). 



21. olivacea. Dee : once taken. 



22. auratitiaGa. Mersey and Dee ; common. 



23. /jiicirt. Mersey and Dee ; not uncommon. 



24. exigua. Mersey ; apparently rare. 



25. despeGta. Mersey; common. 



26. Embletonia pallida. Mersey (the only known locality) : very rare. 



27. Antiopa Gristata. Dee ; occasional. 



28. Antiopa hyalina. Dee (the only known locality) ; very rare. 



All these papers are excellent, but, in the Annals, they 

 are so thoroughly within easy reach of students that any 

 lengthened reference to them would be needless in the pre- 

 sent paper. But let those who feel inclined to study this 

 beautiful group by all means read these three papers in the 

 Annals. It is truly refreshing to find objects of natural 

 beauty exciting a freshness of enthusiasm that is easily lost 

 but impossible to be recovered. 



About the same time, 1859, John Baker Edwards, Ph.D., 

 F.C.S., read a paper before the Literary and Philosophical 

 Society, on '* The Marine Animals of the Mersey Shore," 

 with especial reference to the management of marine aquaria 

 for the study of the habits, life-histories, and physiology of 



