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feeding upon the " fairy shrimp," My sis inermis, which 

 swarmed at the time in countless thousands. Mr. Andrew 

 Scott finds, on the Lancashire coast, that young Herrings, 

 2 to 3 inches long, feed largely upon Mysis. There can 

 be no doubt that this Crustacean is an important fish food. 



Notes on Work Done at the Station. 



Mr. J. A. Clubb, M.Sc. (Vict.), is now carrying out his 

 investigations on the structure and variations of sea 

 anemones upon material from Port Erin. He spent 

 some time at the station in summer collecting material 

 for his work, the first part of which has just been published 

 in our twelfth volume. 



A quotation from Mr. Clubb's report to me runs : — 



11 1 had a very good collecting time during the remainder 

 of my stay at Port Erin. We dredged Aclamsia palliata, 

 obtaining about half-a-dozen good specimens, and I 

 succeeded in fixing three of them well expanded. I did 

 not, however, get Corynactis viridis, although out dredging 

 for it two or three times. I got a number of the littoral 

 forms (five different species), and have fixed them all for 

 dissection and histological work." 



Mr. J. Newton Coombe, late Chairman of the Sheffield 

 School Board, has been supplied frequently with gather- 

 ings of diatoms from the surface during the spring and 

 early summer. From this material he has been making 

 observations upon the life history and reproduction, and 

 his results, he informs me, are nearly ready for 

 publication. 



Mr. A. 0. Walker sends me the following " Report on 

 Malacostraca in 1898 " as the result of his work this year : — 



" There has been a remarkable scarcity of Amphipoda 

 this summer on the coasts of Liverpool Bay within a mile 

 of the shore. At Bull Bay, Anglesey, in June ; Port Erin 



