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CONTENTS. 



I. — Proceedings. 



Office-bearers and Council, 1912-1913 . 

 Report of the Council .... 

 Summary of Proceedings at the Meetings 

 List of Members ..... 

 Treasurer's Balance Sheet . 



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vii 

 viii 



ix 

 xiii 

 xvii 



II. — Transactions. 



Presidential Address — " Bergson's Philosophy of 



the Organism." By J. Johnstone, B.Sc. . . 3 



Twenty-sixth Annual Report of the Liverpool 

 Marine Biological Committee and their 

 Biological Station at Port Erin. By Prof. 

 W. A. Herdman, D.Sc, F.R.S 35 



Observations on Marine Algae of the L.M.B.C. 

 District (Isle of Man Area). By R. J. 

 Harvey-Gibson, M.A., F.L.S., Professor of 

 Botany; Margery Knight, B.Sc, Assistant 

 Lecturer in Botany; and Hilda Cobttrn, B.Sc, 

 Hartley Botanical Laboratories, University of 

 Liverpool ....... 123 



The Early Days of Comparative Anatomy. By 

 F. J. Cole, D.Sc, Professor of Zoology, 

 University College, Reading .... 143 



Report on the Investigations carried on during 1912, 

 in connection with the Lancashire Sea-Fisheries 

 Laboratory, at the University of Liverpool, and 

 the Sea-Fish Hatchery at Piel, near Barrow; 

 By Prof. W. A. Herdman, D.Sc, F.R.S., Andrew 

 Scott, A.L.S., and James Johnstone, B.Sc. . 177 



L.M.B.C. Memoir on " Eupagurus." By H. G. 



Jackson, M.Sc 495 



