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and the committee are endeavouring to dispose of her, 
with the view of obtaining in her place a small sailing boat. 
- During the gale of last week the station met with a 
serious mishap in the total loss of the very useful rowing 
boat, which has been in constant service since June, 1887. 
The boat was carried away from her anchorage on the 
night of Ist November, and was washed ashore in pieces 
at Penmon Point on the following day. Although the 
very limited amount of the funds in the Treasurer’s hands 
did not warrant any such expenditure, still on an island a 
boat 1s, of course, indispensible, so a new one has been 
purchased and sent down to the station. 
Turning now to the more scientific part of the year’s 
record, we find that, during Easter, Mr. Harvey Gibson, 
Dr. Hanitsch, Mr. W. R. Melly and Professor Herdman 
visited the station, and although they were occasionally 
driven into the laboratory from the rocks by a biting 
north-east wind and showers of sleet, and on one day had 
the whole island covered by a layer of snow, still a good 
deal of shore and laboratory work was carried on, and one 
good day’s dredging off the north end of the island (see 
chart,* Turbot Hole) was obtained, which yielded, amongst 
other things, twenty-one species of Amphipoda and Isopoda, 
of which seven are new to our fauna. 
in June, Mr. Thompson, Mr. McMillan and Professor 
Herdman visited the station, and collected, amongst other 
things, Calliopius norvegicus, an Amphipod which is new 
to the British lists. 
At the end of July, Mr. Hurst, of Owens College, 
Mr. Dutton, of Chester, and Professor Herdman did a 
good deal of collecting, and obtained Calliopius norvegicus 
again, an undetermined Lysianassa, and other species 
* The chart of Puffin Island and the neighbourhood which accompanies 
this report was very kindly drawn for me by My. 8. Nowell, Junr. 
