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subscribers in order that a work place may be at the 

 disposal of their staff for a certain period annually ; a 

 subscription of two guineas will secure a work place for 

 six weeks in the year, a subscription of five guineas for 

 four months, and a subscription of d£10 for the whole year. 



VI. — Each worker* is entitled to a work place opposite 

 a window in the Laboratory, and may make use of the 

 microscopes, reagents, and other apparatus, and of the 

 boats, dredges, tow-nets, &c, so far as is compatible with 

 the claims of other workers, and with the routine work of 

 the Station. 



VII. — Each worker will be allowed to use one pint of 



methylated spirit per week free. Any further amount 



required must be paid for. All dishes, jars, bottles, tubes, 



and other glass may be used freely, but must not be 



taken away from the Laboratory. Workers desirous of 



making, preserving, or taking away collections of marine 



animals aiid plants, can make special arrangements 



with the Director or Treasurer in regard to bottles and 



preservatives. Although workers in the Station are free 



to make their own collections at Port Erin, it must be 



clearly understood that (as in other Biological Stations) 



no specimens must be taken for such purposes from the 



Laboratory stock, nor from the Aquarium tanks, nor from 



the steam-boat dredging expeditions, as these specimens 



are the property of the Committee. The specimens in 



the Laboratory stock are preserved for sale, the animals 



in the tanks are for the instruction of visitors to the 



Aquarium, and as all the expenses of steam-boat dredging 



expeditions are defrayed by the Committee, the specimens 



obtained on these occasions must be retained by the 



* Workers at the Station can always find comfortable and convenient 

 quarters at the closely adjacent Bellevue Hotel ; but lodgings can readily be 

 had by those who prefer them. 



