Vi. L.M.B.C. REPORT II. 
volume will explain a certain amount of irregularity in the 
pagination and in the numbering of the plates, since the 
sheets and plates have been reprinted from two separate 
volumes of the ‘‘Proceedings.’’ The absence of a con- 
tinuous paging throughout the volume need not, however, 
cause any difficulty or confusion, since each article is 
independent of its neighbours; and exact references to the 
species described or figured in the volume can be made by 
quoting the title of the article as well as that of the book: 
e.g., the new Copepod described by Mr. I. C. Thompson as 
Lichomolgus sabellw, may be referred to under ‘“‘ Fauna of 
Liverpool Bay, vol. ii., Second Report on Copepoda, p. 68.” 
The L.M.B.C. desire again to place on record their 
srateful appreciation of the assistance they have received 
from various gentlemen in Liverpool and the neighbour- 
hood. Much of the work recorded in the following 
pages could not have been undertaken but for the ready 
subscriptions, the welcome loan of steamers, and the 
kindly encouragement with which the committee have 
been favoured. The Liverpool Salvage Association have 
been especially helpful in placing at the services of the 
Committee, year after year, for several days at a time, their 
useful steamer the ‘‘ Hyena,” thus enabling us to explore 
some of the more distant parts of the district, to discover 
a number of rare and some new* animals, and to make 
many interesting observations. 
The ‘‘Hyena”’ is fitted up with the electric light, and 
has two Pilsen arc lamps (for deck or masthead) of 3000 
candle power each, supplied by a Phoenix compound 
wound dynamo, which is worked by a Gwynne vertical 
engine of six horse power, and a number of smaller Edison- 
Swan submarine incandescent lamps of 50 to 100 candle 
* One of these, a Copepod, dredged off the south end of the Isle of Man, 
has been named Jonesiella hycene, in honour of the old gunboat (see this vol., 
App. to third Rep. on Copepoda, p. 66). 
