MAEINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN. 



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questions of bionomics and of oceanography — some of 

 them having important bearings upon Geology and upon 

 Fishery questions — are now opening up before us and 

 pressing for solution. 



We are a small body, the Naturalists of Liverpool, our 

 laboratory at Port Erin is a modest establishment with 

 but scanty equipment, we have no State, County or 

 Municipal subsidies, and our available funds (private 

 subscriptions) are barely sufficient for the necessary 

 expenses of steamer and apparatus in our explorations, 

 and for the publication of our results ; but fortunately 

 there is no lack of work for us to do, work which is 

 interesting in the doing, and work which, if we seek it 

 earnestly and do it honestly, we cannot but believe will 

 be of value to science, and may, through its connection 

 with the fishing industries, be of direct benefit to mankind. 



