4 LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
more workers, and sometimes the laboratory was unoc- 
cupied. The committee would be glad to see the station 
taken advantage of to the fullest extent by the students of 
the neighbouring colleges.* 
The second important function of such a_ biological 
station is to procure supplies of specimens of the various 
groups of animals required by the specialists who are 
engaged in working up the Fauna and Flora of Liverpool 
Bay. And it is in this direction that the Puffin Island 
institution has done most service to science. It is a 
singular and most encouraging circumstance that on, I 
believe, every visit of members of the L.M.B. Committee 
to the island their dredging and tow-netting operations 
have been rewarded by the capture of one or more species 
new to the district, and in many cases new to the British 
Seas; while several species new to science have been 
found during the past year. 
Mr. A. O. Walker, F.L.8., who has charge of the higher 
Crustacea of the district, and who is now engaged upon a 
report which we shall have before us at a future meeting of 
the society, informs me that twenty-two species new to 
our fauna have been added in his department, including 
one or two new to the British seas, two Amphipods 
probably new to science, and three species of Cumacea, 
all new to our district. 
Mr. I. C. Thompson, F..8., reports, in regard to the 
Copepoda, that since his last paper (written in November, 
1887) in our recently published volume of Proceedings, 
the tow-net gatherings made by members of the com- 
mittee, or by the curator of the station, Mr. Rutherford, 
* Students of any of the above-mentioned colleges are offered lodging and 
the use of the laboratory at the station at the rate of ten shillings per week. 
Four simple meals—breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper-—are provided by the 
curator at about cost price, averaging three shillings a day. 
