MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT POET ERIN. 



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I believe, however, that I have found it before, in a small bay to 

 the North of East Loch Tarbert, on Loch Fyne — and the 

 probability is that, like Amphidinium, it is much more widely 

 spread and will be found in many localities if they are carefully 

 searched. 



CRUISE OF THE " RUNA " IN 1913. 



In continuation of our practice of extending the marine 

 biological investigations from the Irish Sea to the West Coast 

 of Scotland during the summer vacation, we again this year 

 organised an extensive cruise of nearly eight weeks (July and 

 August) during which we sampled with dredge, tow-net and 

 in other ways many of the water-ways between Port Erin and 

 Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides. Most of the results of this 

 cruise are being published elsewhere,* but there are a few 



Fig. 7. — Large Kittiwake colony on the cliffs of Canna. 



[Photo, by Prof. R. Newstcad. 



*See Lancashire Sea-Fisheries Annual Report for an account of the sea- 

 water and the plankton ; while an account of the rarer dredged forms has 

 been read before the Linnean Society of London. 



