VI. L.M.B.< . REPORT V. 



resulted in the production of a now series of publications 

 (not included in the present volume), ' the L.M.B.C. 

 Memoirs." The following extract from the preface to 

 the ' Memoirs ' explains the circumstances and objects 

 of this new departure: — 



" In these twelve years' experience of a Biological 

 Station (five years at Puffin Island and seven at Port 

 Erin), where College students and young amateurs formed 

 a large proportion of the workers, the want has been con- 

 stantly felt of a series of detailed descriptions of the 

 structure of certain common typical animals and plants, 

 chosen as representatives of their groups, and dealt with 

 by specialists. The same want has probably been felt in 

 other similar institutions and many College laboratories. 



' The objects of the Committee and of the workers at 

 the Biological Station have hitherto been chiefly faunistic 

 and speciographic. The work must necessarily be so at 

 first when opening up a new district. Some of the 

 workers have published papers on morphological points, 

 or on embryology and observations on life-histories and 

 habits : but the majority of the papers in the volumes on 

 the " Fauna and Flora of Liverpool Bay ' have been, as 

 was intended from the hist, occupied with the names and 

 characteristics and distribution of the many different 

 kinds of marine plants and animals in our district. And 

 this faunistic work will still go on. It is far from 

 finished, and tin" Committee hope in the future to add 

 greatly to the records of the Fauna and Flora. But the 

 papers in tin 1 present series are quite distinct from these 

 previous publications in name, in treatment, and in 

 purpose. They will be called the "L.M.B.C. Memoirs," 

 each will treat of one type, and they will be issued 

 separately as they are ready, and will be obtainable 

 Memoir by Memoir as they appeal-, or later bound up in 



