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THIRD ANNUAL REPORT of the LIVERPOOL ~ 
MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION on 
PUFFIN ISLAND. 
By W. A. Herpmay, D.Sc., F.L.S., F.R.S.E., 
DERBY PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LIVERPOOL; CHAIRMAN 
OF THE LIVERPOOL MARINE BIOLOGY COMMITTEE, AND DIRECTOR OF THE STATION. 
[Read 13th December, 1889.] 
DuRINnG the past year the work of the Liverpool Marine 
Biology Committee has been carried on actively at Puffin 
Island and elsewhere in the district, and has resulted in 
an unusually large number of events and observations 
worthy of record in this annual report. The first of these 
reports was issued after the publication of vol. 1. of the 
‘‘Fauna of Liverpool Bay,” and the greater part of it was 
devoted to an account of the establishment of our 
Biological Station on Puffin Island; while the second 
annual report was largely occupied by a description of the 
experiments with the submarine electric light, a method 
which we were the first in Europe to apply to purposes of 
biological investigation. On the present occasion I have 
to report, amongst other things, upon the further develop- 
ment of both of these schemes, viz. (1) the publication of 
vol. il. of the ‘‘ Fauna,’ chiefly as an outcome of the work 
carried on at the Puffin Island Station, and (2) the 
additional electric light experiments which were made 
during the five days cruise of the s.s. ““Hyena,” at the 
Isle of Man last Easter, and which resulted in the capture 
of a large number of rare and interesting crustacea. 
PUBLICATIONS. 
The first volume of the “‘Fauna’’ was published in 
the summer of 1886, as an Appendix to vol. xl. of the 
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