28 LIVERPOOL MARINE BIOLOGY COMMITTEE REPORT. 



Mr. A. 0. Walker, F. L. S., although one of the most 

 thorough-going of our local Pioneers in Marine Biology, 

 has given his name less frequently than his valuable 

 assistance. In the opening pages of Part 2, P.G.S. N.S., 

 occurs a short paper of his, entitled, " Observations on 

 Phenomena connected with the deposition of Sediment at 

 the present day in the estuary of the Dee, and their bear- 

 ing upon older deposits." It is a short paper, but leads 

 to results higher than even the finding of rare or undescribed 

 species. Very little has been done locally in the philosophy 

 of life at the bottom of the sea. 



Free Public Museum of Liverpool. 

 The specimens now exhibited in the table cases as British 

 representatives in the six groups assigned to Sertularian 

 and allied Zoophytes, and to the Polyzoa, were, with few 

 exceptions, collected on the shores of the Mersey and the 

 Dee, by the Kev. Henry H. Higgins, and were by him pre- 

 sented to the Museum, together with many of the exhibited 

 British representatives of the Marine Mollusca. 



Liverpool Naturalists' Journal. — Published in connection 

 with the Liverpool Naturalists' Field Club. Printed in 

 monthly numbers, of which 20 appeared, commencing 

 June, 1866. 



It was designed to be " an organ by means of which naturahsts 

 might record their observations and communicate their ideas for 

 their common benefit." 



The Journal contains about 120 communications, which, though not 

 confined to local natural history, include much information on the 

 subject. Amongst the contributions of a more general character 

 may be mentioned a valuable series of papers on the " Develop- 

 ment of Plants," by J. B. Nevins, M.D., and various articles by 

 F. Archer, Jun. A copy may be consulted in the Free Public 

 Library of Liverpool.* 



* List of local papers on Nat. Hist., L.N.F.C., H.H.H., 1874. 



