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has done honour to Liverpool. The Annual Reports 

 and the four published volumes of ' Fauna and Flora 

 of Liverpool Bay ' are notable contributions to Marine 

 Biology ; and altogether it has helped to inspire more 

 than a hundred papers contributed to Scientific 

 Journals. At its Laboratory, first at Puffin Island, 

 now at Port Erin, laborious researches have been 

 carried out, such as in other countries rest on State 

 support, but in England are left to the public spirit 

 and enterprise of individuals or communities. 

 "A small endowment of the kind contemplated will be 

 invaluable for securing fruit and permanence to the 

 activities of the Liverpool Marine Biology Committee. 

 The publication of Proceedings, and the conduct of 

 scientific investigations, make a continuous and heavy 

 drain upon the resources of a voluntary society. A 

 grant which has been allotted for the last four years 

 to the Liverpool Marine Biology Committee from the 

 funds of the British Association, expired with the 

 present year, and the annual income from this endow- 

 ment will at a fortunate moment make good the loss. 

 " The close association of the Liverpool Marine Biology 

 Committee with two of the British Association 

 Honorary Local Secretaries, whose exertions contri- 

 buted so much to the success of the recent Meeting, 

 is no mere coincidence. In connection with the 

 Liverpool Marine Biology Committee, Prof. Herdman 

 and Mr. Isaac Thompson established not only their 

 enthusiasm for Science, but also their capacity and 

 resource in organisation. By happy fortune the 

 British Association Meeting, which owed so much to 

 their energy, can make an apt return by permanently 

 forwarding that local development of Science which 

 they have most at heart." 



