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It is a little difficult to disentangle the Lan- 

 cashire and Western Sea-fishery Committee from 

 Liverpool University on the one hand, and from 

 the Liverpool Marine Biological Committee or 

 Society on the other. The Committee owns a 

 handsome marine station at Port Erin, on the 

 southern end of the Isle of Man, where, together 

 with the fish hatchery at Peel in Cumberland, 

 the largest fish-breeding experiments in England 

 are carried out. In 1904, 5,000,000 young plaice 

 were reared and shot in the sea from Port Erin 

 alone. The Committee publishes Annual Reports ; 

 volumes, of which five or six are already pub- 

 lished, on the " Fauna and Flora of Liverpool 

 Bay," and a valuable series of " Memoirs " of 

 great use to students. It is probably owing to 

 this Committee that the University owes its 

 connection with the local sea-fisheries authorities. 

 In the laboratories and museums of the Univer- 

 sity the scientific work of the local districts is 

 carried on by officials paid by the Fisheries Com- 

 mittee, and special rooms in the handsome new 

 Zoological Department have been assigned to 

 these two organisations. The greatest common 

 measure between the three bodies is the Pro- 

 fessor of Zoology, Dr. Herdman, who is the 



