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magniceps. Another notable point in regard to the Cope- 
poda is that at Puffin Island on the night of May 17th, 
Cyclopina littoralis, one of the rarer species, and usually 
found singly, appeared in a shoal, and numerous specimens 
were captured. 
‘‘SPINDRIFT’’ H}XPEDITION IN JUNE. 
This year the Government Grant Committee of the 
Royal Society placed £50 at the disposal of the L.M.B.C. 
for the purpose of hiring vessels and men in carrying on 
the exploration of Liverpool Bay by dredging expeditions. 
The steam-tug ‘‘ Spindrift’ was accordingly chartered on 
two occasions from the Liverpool Tug Company for single 
day expeditions. Such exploring trips are very important, 
and every one of them adds considerably to our knowledge 
of the district. -Unfortunately, however, they are so 
expensive that in the present state of our funds we cannot 
afford to have more than one or two in each season. If 
tug companies or owners of small steamers would lend us 
a vessel occasionally for a single day or a week-end, it 
would materially aid our work and advance the scientific 
knowledge of Liverpool Bay. 
The first of these expeditions was on Saturday, the 
8th June, which proved one of the finest days of the 
summer for work at sea. A number of members of the 
Committee and other naturalists went down to the Menai 
Straits on the previous day, and the ‘‘Spindrift”’ arrived 
off Puffin Island at five a.m. on 8th June, and, after taking 
some of the party on board from the Biological Station 
and others from Beaumaris, steamed to the ‘ Turbot 
Hole,” off the N.E. end of the island, and commenced the 
work of the day. We then proceeded along the north 
coast of Anglesey, round Point Lynas, as far as Porthwen 
Bay, and dredging was carried on with varying success 
