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Museum adjoiniug tlie Station. Occasional public lectures 

 are given in the Institution by members of the Committee. 



Y. — Tbose who are entitled to work in the Station, 

 when there is room, and after formal application to the 

 Director, are : — (1 j Annual Subscribers of one guinea or 

 upwards to the funds (each guinea subscribed entitling to 

 the use of a work place for three weeks), and (2) others 

 who are not annual subscribers, but who pay the Treasurer 

 10s. per week for the accommodation and privileges. 

 Institutions, such as Universities and Museums, may 

 become subscribers in order that a work place may be at 

 the disposal of their students or staff for a certain period 

 annually ; a subscription of two guineas will secure a work 

 place for six weeks in the year, a subscription of five 

 guineas for four months, and a subscription of £1U for the 

 whole year. 



YI. — Each worker is entitled to a work place opposite 

 a window in the Laboratory, and may make use of 

 the microscopes and other apparatus, and of the boats, 

 dredges, tow-nets, &c., so far as is compatible with 

 the claims of other workers, and with the routine work of 

 the Station. 



YII. — Each worker will be allowed to use one pint of 

 methylated spirit per week free. Any further amount 

 required must be paid for. All dishes, jars, bottles, tubes, 

 and other glass may be used freely, but must not be 

 taken away from the Laboratory. Workers desirous of 

 making, preserving, or taking away collections of marine 

 animals and plants, can make special arrangements 

 with the Director or Treasurer in regard to bottles and 

 preservatives. Although workers in the Station are free 

 to make their own collections at Port Erin, it must be 

 clearly understood that (as in other Biological Stations) 

 no specimens must be taken for such purposes from the 



