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and unanimity of our determination to report favourably 
of Puffin Island, and push on the establishment of the 
biological station without further delay. After a rapid 
inspection of the island, and a careful examination of the 
house, all the necessary plans and measurements were 
made, and we returned in our boat to Bangor. 
A joiner was kept hard at work during the next three 
weeks, in the workshop of the zoological department of 
University College, making the necessary doors, windows, 
shutters, shelves, tables, and other fittings for the station; 
while the committee purchased a few camp beds, ham- 
mocks, sailors’ mattresses, chairs, kettles and pots, dishes, 
and other household necessaries for the equipment of the 
station. When all was ready, the Liverpool Salvage Associa- 
tion again placed their useful steamer, the “‘ Hyena,” at the 
service of the committee, and a party of about twenty 
naturalists, with two workmen and all the fittings and 
furnishings, were conveyed on 27th May, 1887, to the 
Menai Straits, where they anchored for the night, near 
Beaumatis. 
On the morning of 28th May, the ‘‘ Hyena” made an early 
start, and reached the neighbourhood of Puffin Island about 
six a.m. ‘To the great disappointment of the whole party, 
a heavy sea was breaking on the rocks, and after a cruise 
round the island, in the vain attempt to find a piece of 
lee shore, Captain M‘Lellan decided that it would not be 
safe to land in the boats. The naturalists being very 
unwilling to lose the day, the ‘‘ Hyena” was kept in the 
neighbourhood of the island for some time, and fortunately 
as the tide ebbed sufficient amounts of the ‘“‘ Dutchman” 
and ‘‘Irishman”’ sandbanks were exposed to form a break- 
water protecting the gravel beach at the southern end of 
the island from the force of the waves. On this spot, at 
nearly low tide, on the very opposite end of the island 
