MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION ON PUFFIN ISLAND. 57 
3° Scaphosoma herdmani, n. sp. (I. C. T.) 
A very remarkable form, with a long narrow body. It 
was first found in a tow-net gathering taken off Puffin 
Island, on an autumn night this year, and was at once 
recognised as being an interesting new species belonging 
to the new genus Scaphosoma, founded by Mr. Thompson, 
in a paper on the Copepoda of the Canary Islands, read 
before the Linnean Society of London, on 17th November, 
1887, for the reception of the new species Scaphosoma 
rigidum, which he had found on the surface off Teneriffe. 
Curiously enough, another specimen of Scaphosoma herd- 
mant has since been found in a tow-net gathering taken 
in the Mediterranean, off Malta, by Dr. D. Bruce, and 
sent to Mr. Thompson for examination. So that single 
specimens belonging to the new genus Scaphosoma have 
been found lately in such far distant localities as Puffin 
Island, Teneriffe, and Malta. 
Some of the more interesting Copepoda found round 
Puffin Island have been taken in the night. The distri- 
bution of these surface organisms, both according to the 
time of the day and season, and also according to the 
depth, is still very imperfectly known. There is great 
need of some simple yet efficient contrivance by which a 
tow-net could be let down closed to a certain depth, then 
be opened and used at that depth, and then be closed again 
and hauled up, so as to ensure that all its contents were 
really obtained from a certain stratum of water. The 
“Turbyne”’ tow-net, devised and used at the Scottish 
Marine Station, Granton, seems but a rough and imperfect 
form of the desired instrument, and would probably give 
only approximately correct results. 
In the beginning of October, a meeting of the L. M. B. 
Committee was held at University College, to receive a 
