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thoroughly familiar with the forms of which they treat, will be found of value 
by students of Biology in our laboratories and in marine stations, and will be 
welcomed by many others working privately at marine natural history. 
It is proposed that the forms selected should, as far as possible, be common 
Trish Sea animals and plants, of which no adequate account already exists in 
any text-book. 
The first three Memoirs will be issued before the end of 1899, and others 
will follow, it is hoped, in rapid succession :—Memoir I. Ascidia, W. A. Herd- 
man ; Memoir II. Cockle, J. Johnstone ; Memoir III. Zchinus, H. C. Chadwick ; 
Dendronotus, J. A. Clubb; Zostera, R. J. Harvey Gibson; Halidrys, C. E. 
Jones; Codium, R. J. H. Gibson and Helen Auld; Diatoms, F. E. Weiss ; 
Gigartina, O. V. Darbishire; Alcyoniwm, 8. J. Hickson; Plaice, F. J. Cole 
and J. Johnstone ; Botrylloides, W. A. Herdman; Cuttle-fish, W. E. Hoyle ; 
Ostracod, Andrew Scott; Patella, J. R. Ainsworth Davis; Calanus, I. C. 
Thompson ; Actinia, J. A. Clubb; Polyzoon, Laura R. Thornely ; Caleareous 
Sponge, R. Hanitsch ; Porpoise, A. M. Paterson; Avenicola, J. H. Ashworth ; 
Oyster, W. A. Herdman. 
The editor acknowledges a welcome donation of £100 from Mr. F. H. 
Gossage of Woolton, which has met the expense of preparing the plates in 
illustration of the first few memoirs, and so has enabled the Committee to 
commence the publication of the series sooner than would otherwise have been 
possible. 
The Committee desire to intimate that no copies of these memoirs will be 
presented or exchanged, as the prices have been fixed so low that most of the 
copies will have to be sold to meet the cost of production. 
The memoirs may be obtained, post free at the net prices stated, from the 
Hon. Treasurer, Mr. I. C. Thompson, 53 Croxteth Road, Liverpool ; Professor 
Herdman, University College, Liverpool; or the Curator, Biological Station, 
Port Erin, Isle of Man. 
The Millport Marine Biological Station issues an appeal for a sum of £300, 
required for the pumping and circulating apparatus. The fund for this is to be 
kept independent of the general maintenance accounts. The Millport Marine 
Station has the distinction of being a scientific institution founded and main- 
tained by private liberality on the part of persons interested in the advance- 
ment of science, and it will be a matter for congratulation if, before the 
Glasgow meeting of the British Association in 1901, its equipment is complete 
in the important department to which this appeal has special reference. 
We read in Sezence that teachers in Philadelphia public schools are now 
allowed to take their classes for a half-day once or twice a year to the Zoological 
Gardens and Fairmount Park, the visit counting as part of the regular class 
duties. 
Science reports some of the general results of the third Princeton expedition 
to Patagonia, conducted by Mr. J. B. Hatcher and his assistant Mr. O. A. 
Paterson. 
(1) A good preliminary geological survey of that part of southern South 
America lying between the Andes on the west and the Atlantic on the east, 
and between the Straits of Magellan and the forty-seventh parallel of south 
latitude, sufficient to serve as a basis for a geological map of the region. 
(2) Very extensive and complete collections of fossils from all the horizons 
known to that region, with the exception of the Pyrotherium beds. 
(3) The discovery of four distinct and previously unreported geological 
horizons. 
(4) A collection of more than a thousand skins and skeletons of recent birds 
and mammals. 
(5) Extensive collections of the freshwater, terrestrial, and littoral inverte- 
brates. 
