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THE 



MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN 



BEING THE 



TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT 



OF THE 



LIVERPOOL MARINE BIOLOGY COMMITTEE. 



This year is the Coming of Age of the Port Erin Biological 

 Station, not, it is true, of the present building which is only 

 eleven years old, but of the Biological Station as an institution 

 founded and maintained at Port Erin by the Liverpool Marine 

 Biology Committee. 



The first cottage with which the Station started was built 

 and opened for work in 1892, the second little house was added 

 to it the following year, the present much larger building (fig. 1) 

 was erected in the winter of 1901 and was first used in the 

 summer of 1902 ; and finally the new research wing was added 

 in 1910 and has been fully occupied in vacations during the 

 last three years. For a few years previous to that time the 

 number of workers in the laboratories ranged from 30 to 40 

 individuals in the year, but from 1910 onwards the numbers 

 have been nearly doubled : — 



1910 57 1912 74 



1911 60 1913 72 



All the available work-places in the institution have really 

 been more than comfortably filled during the Easter vacations 

 (the favourite time with both students and researchers) of the 

 last three years. In 1912 the place was too full of workers, 

 which is perhaps partly the reason why we had not quite so 

 many this year. 



Some extension of the laboratories is, therefore, once again 

 urgently called for. A certain amount of very welcome relief 

 was obtained last year by running a wooden partition across the 



