MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN. 257 



Dr. 0. V. Darbishire ... A Red Sea-weed. 



Mr. F.J. Cole The Plaice. 



Professor Herdman ... Ascidia and Botrjjlloides. 



Mr. W. E. Hoyle ... A Cuttle-fish {Eledone). 



Mr. J. Johnstone.., ... The Cockle. 



Mr. Andrew Scott ... AnOstracodandanEpizoon. 



Mr. I. C. Thompson ... Calanus finmarchicus. 



Mr. H. C. Chadwick ... Echinus, the Sea-urchin. 



Mr. J. A. Clubb ... ... An Actinian. 



Miss L. R Thornely ... A Polyzoon Colony. 



Dr. Hanitsch ... ... A Calcareous Sponge. 



Now, all these memoirs will require to be carefully 

 illustrated with well-drawn plates, and fortunately the 

 Committee have at their disposal a small annual sum of 

 money (the British Association — 1896 — fund) which it 

 was proposed from the first should be devoted to just such 

 a purpose as this. That, however, leaves the printing of 

 the memoirs still unprovided for, and with the Curator's 

 salary and other expenses at Port Erin to meet, it will be 

 quite impossible to spare anything for general funds. A 

 special subscription will have to be raised to defray the 

 expenses of the L.M.B.C. Memoirs. 



I should also like to point out that papers on special 

 points in the Zoology of Sea-iinimals are being sent by 

 our workers to London Scientific Societies, because we 

 have not the funds to publish them satisfactorily in 

 Liverpool. Mr. Andrew Scott has just finished a beauti- 

 ful series of water-colour drawings of fish eggs, embryos 

 and larva?, from his investigations during the year at 

 our Lancashire Fish Hatchery. They will be ex- 

 pensive to reproduce and publish, but it will be very 

 discreditable to Committee, and City, and County, if 

 we allow this excellent local work to be issued under 



