MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN. 



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Association Dredging Committee, from the Shetland seas, in 

 the years 1861-67. 



Professor Newstead, while primarily studying the sea-birds 

 and the insects of the islands we landed on, took a keen interest 

 in the dredging and tow-netting operations, and most kindly 

 helped in all the scientific work. Several of the blocks 

 illustrating this report have been made from photographs 

 of the nests and haunts of Sea-birds taken by Prof. 

 Newstead (see fig. 9). Throughout the cruise a great deal of 



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Fig. 9. — Nest of Merganser on an 



island in Loch Sunart. 



[Photo by Prof. R. Newstead. 



the work of collecting and preserving, recording and 

 sketching was done by my wife, by our son George (who 

 was responsible for all the physical observations — temperatures 

 and salinities and samples of sea- water), our daughter Catherine 

 (who collected, labelled and preserved the samples of dredged 

 deposits to be examined for the Foraminifera), and our cousin 

 Miss J. C. Ferrier, who gave valued assistance in keeping notes 

 of the living animals, with both pen and paint brush, and 



