MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION ON PUFFIN ISLAND. 37 
Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of 
Liverpool, and also as a separate volume.* Later on in 
the same year the Liverpool Biological Society was 
founded, chiefly as a result of the L.M.B.C. investi- 
gations, and through the instrumentality of the members 
of that Committee, and it was then felt that this would 
in future be the proper scientific society before which 
to lay all reports upon the biology of the district. The 
various papers dealing with the investigations at Puffin 
Island and the results of the dredging expeditions have 
therefore been duly read before the Liverpool Biological 
Society during the last two sessions (1887-88 and 1888-89), 
and have been published in the “‘ Proceedings”’ (vols. ii. 
and 1il.). 
The L.M.B.C. have now to thank the Council of the 
Biological Society for allowing extra copies of these 
reports to be printed, in order that they might be collected 
and issued as the second volume of the ‘“ Fauna of 
Liverpool Bay.” This volume of 240 pages and 12 plates 
appeared in July, 1889, and contains sixteen articles, by 
ten authors, dealing with various groups, from Diatoms 
up to Seals and Cetaceans. It is proposed to continue 
this plan of publication, to communicate the papers in 
the first place to the Biological Society, and to issue 
successive volumes of collected reports upon the fauna 
and flora of the district as they are ready, probably at 
intervals of a few years. 
The total number of species which we have recorded is 
now 1456, and of the additions in this last volume of the 
““Fauna’’ twenty-one have not been previously found in 
British seas, and nine (a Sponge, four Copepoda, two 
* «¢Fauna of Liverpool Bay,” Report i. London: Longmans, Green and Co, 
1886. 372 pp. and 12 pls. 
