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ment neither then nor later displayed the active 

 interest of the German in the station. That was left, 

 as commonly in this country, to educational institu- 

 tions and to bodies like our own. In 1875 the 

 committee in its report described the station, 

 showing how the research tables there were ' each 

 in itself a condensed laboratory,' including chemical 

 reagents, anatomical and microscopical tools and 

 apparatus, and drawing materials. The committee 

 finally suggested to the Association ' whether it 

 would not be fairly within the scope of its actions 

 to undertake the hire of one of these tables/ and 

 that ' the funds of the Association could not be more 

 profitably spent, as far as biological research is 

 concerned.' The suggestion was adopted, and from 

 that time onward a committee of the Association 

 has existed ' to aid competent investigators selected 

 by the committee to carry on definite pieces of work 

 at the zoological station at Naples,' while, as appears 

 from the list in Appendix I (p. 270), a substantial 

 aggregate sum has been contributed to the station 

 in return for the accommodation afforded to British 

 workers nominated by the committee. 



In 1893-96 a committee of the Association, with 

 Professor [Sir] W. A. Herdman as secretary, furnished 

 reports on the physical conditions and the zoological, 

 botanical, and geological results of investigations 

 in the Irish Sea. This committee worked in close 

 relationship with the Liverpool Marine Biological 

 Committee, which had established a station at Puffin 

 Island in 1887, and removed to Port Erin, Isle of 

 Man, in 1892. 



The committee which was at work on Clare Island, 

 off the west coast of Ireland, in 1909-12, made a 



