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With the work of the Station thus steadily advancing, the 

 expenses of upkeep, &c., are also increasing, and an effort is 

 at present being put forth to raise an Endowment Fund 

 of £25,000, the interest of which would go to supplement 

 the annual income. A fair beginning has been made with 

 the raising of this Fund, but much still remains to be done. 

 More students and additional members are also needed. 

 Several of the members of our Society have already been 

 workers at the Station, while Mr Crawford and Dr Davies are 

 both original members — Dr Davies being also a member of 

 Committee. Another of our members, Mr D, C. M'Intosh, 

 M.A., as a result of research work conducted at the Station, 

 has published a paper on " Variation in Ophiocoma nigra 

 (0. F. Mliller)," which was read before the Zoology Section 

 of the British Association in 1903. This paper may be 

 termed a "recess study," as it was worked out during a 

 school vacation. Indeed, for any one with Natural History 

 tastes and predilections, no pleasanter holiday could be 

 imagined than in such work as is offered at the Millport 

 Marine Biological Station. The student could here learn in 

 a week what he could hardly acquire in a twelvemonth's 

 study of text-books. 



[In illustration of the above paper, Mr Lindsay exhibited 

 and described the following examples of the fauna of the 

 Clyde sea-area — viz. : The Common Octopus {Octopus vulgaris), 

 young form; the Sea-mouse {Aphrodite acideata) ; the Sea- 

 pen {Pennatida phosphorea) ; and the Gaping File-shell {lima 

 Mans). A crab {Eupagurus prideauxii) and a sea-anemone 

 (Adamsia palliata) living together as commensals, and fre- 

 quently found in the Clyde sea-area, were also shown and 

 described by Mr Lindsay.] 



