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THE 



MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT POET ERIN 



BEING THE 



TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPOET 



OF THE 



LIVEEPOOL MAEINE BIOLOGY COMMITTEE. 



Again we are happy in not having to record any 

 changes in the Committee or on the Staft. The year 

 has been a good one both in weather and in work, and 

 we are able to show an increased number both of 

 investigators in the Laboratory and of visitors to the 

 Aquarium. The new research wing added last winter, 

 and described fully in the last Eeport, has relieved 

 pressure, and has proved quite satisfactory and most 

 useful — especially during the Easter vacation. The 

 enlarged library is a pleasant room, and is useful, not 

 merely to accommodate the books, but as a sitting-room 

 common to all workers in the building for purposes 

 of reading, writing and occasional meetings. We have 

 now abundance of room for additional books on the 

 shelves ; our present library of about 310 volumes and 

 620 Eeports and pamphlets looks ratlier a meagre collec- 

 tion, and a considerable addition to the library of marine 

 biology is one of our most pressing needs. 



Figure 1 (frontisi^iece) shows the Biological Station 

 in its present condition from a photograph taken last 

 Easter, after the additions were opened for work; and 

 fig. 2 gives the back view of the new wing, with its door 

 to the yard and the outside stair to the upper floor. The 

 library w^indows are seen in the latter figure under the 

 low-sloping roof, between the research wing and the 

 back of the aquarium. The ground plan (fig. 3) makes 

 the accommodation clear on both floors. 



