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THE first volume of this series of L.M.B.C. Reports upon 
the Fauna and Flora of Liverpool Bay* was published 
in the summer of 1886, as an Appendix to vol. xl. of the 
Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of 
Liverpool, and also separately as a volume of 372 pages, 
ten plates and two maps.+ Later on in the same year the 
Liverpool Biological Society was founded, chiefly as an 
outcome of the L.M.B.C. investigations and through the 
instrumentality of the members of that committee, and it 
was then felt that this would in future be the proper 
scientific society before which to lay all reports upon the 
biology of the district. The various papers bound up in 
the present volume have therefore been duly read before 
the Liverpool Biological Society, during the last two 
sessions (1887-88 and 1888-89), and have been, or are now 
being, published in the ‘‘ Proceedings”’ (vols. 11. and iii.). 
The L.M.B.C. have to thank the Council of the Liver- 
pool Biological Society for allowing extra copies of these 
reports to be printed in order that they might be collected 
and issued as the second volume of ‘“‘The Fauna of 
Liverpool Bay.” It is proposed to continue this arrange- 
ment, and to issue succeeding volumes of collected reports 
upon the fauna and flora of the district as they are ready, 
probably at intervals of a few years. 
This statement of the method of printing of the present 
* The L.M.B.C. district, or Liverpool Bay in a wide sense, is that 
quadrangular area in the eastern part of the Irish Sea which is bounded by 
the coast of Lancashire, the north coasts of Wales and Anglesey, and the 
Isle of Man. 
+ ‘‘Fauna of Liverpool Bay,” Report I. London: Longmans, Green and 
Co., 1886. 
