[From Trans. Biol. Soc, L'pool. Vol. X.] 



NINTH ANNUAL KEPOKT of the LIVEEPOOL 



MAKINE BIOLOGY COMMITTEE and their 



BIOLOGICAL STATION at POET ERIN. 



By Professor W. A. Herdman, D.Sc, F.R.S., 



DERBY PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LIVERPOOL ; 



CHAIRMAN OF THE LIVERPOOL MARINE BIOLOGY COMMITTEE, 



AND DIRECTOR OF THE PORT ERIN STATION. 



[Read 8tli November, 1895.] 



The close of a third triennial period has witnessed the 

 publication (October, 1895) of a Fourth Volume of 

 Collected Reports by our Committee upon the Fauna of 

 Liverpool Bay and the Irish Sea. This volume practically 

 brings the account of the work of the Committee up to 

 the end of the tenth year ; the Committee was formed in 



1885, the first volume of the "Fauna' was issued in 



1886, vol. II. in 1889, vol. III. in 1892, and this fourth 

 volume has now appeared in the autumn of 1895 — giving 

 an account of the opening of the Port Erin Station by 

 His Excellency Dr. Spencer Walpole in 1892, and of the 

 investigations conducted in the laboratory and at sea up 

 to the date of our last annual report. The present (ninth) 

 annual report brings on the record to the conclusion of 

 the season 1895. 



The Committee have carried on their usual exploring 

 work by means of dredging expeditions and otherwise 

 daring the past year. The specimens obtained have been 

 worked up by specialists, and some of the most noteworthy 

 additions to our lists are given below. I am specially 

 indebted to my colleagues on the Committee Mr. Isaac 

 Thompson and Mr. Alfred Walker, to my Assistant Mr. 

 Andrew Scott, and to the various other naturalists who 



