90 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



science should, during some part of their course, study a 

 living Fauna and Flora so as to realise the natural 

 appearance, mode of occurrence and environment of the 

 forms which they know otherwise only from books, 

 lectures, and preserved specimens. 



The Committee of the Liverpool Free Public Museum 

 has also become a subscriber to the Station in order that 

 one or other of the officials of the museum may have the 

 use of a work place in the Laboratory during the period 

 of weeks covered by the annual subscription. Other public 

 bodies, or local scientific societies are invited to become 

 subscribers in a similar manner (see Regulations, p. 49). 



The Aquarium. 



Over 300 visitors paid 3d. for admission to the aquarium 

 during the summer when it was on exhibition, and many 

 other visitors, including members of the Isle of Man 

 Natural History and Antiquarian Society, and of the 

 British Association party who visited the island in 

 September were taken round the establishment. The 

 usual animals, including most of the common inverte- 

 brates of the shore and shallow w 7 ater, and a few fishes, 

 have been on exhibition. Some of the commonest forms, 

 such as the sea-anemones, the hermit crabs, shrimps and 

 prawns, and the flat-fish, are those that are most admired 

 and excite most interest. People, as a rule, are pleased 

 to see something they can recognise, and like to be told 

 or shown something new about an old friend. 



Our visitors to the Aquarium have ranged from the 

 Governor (Lord Henniker) and his party to the fisher lads 

 of the neighbourhood and the " trippers " from the inland 

 towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire. We hear many 

 curious remarks, and extraordinary opinions, in regard to 

 the lower living things in the sea, when we take visitors 



