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THE 
MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN 
BEING THE : 
TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT. 
OF THE 
LIVERPOOL MARINE BIOLOGY COMMITTEE. 
The prolongation of the Kuropean War renders the words 
with which I began the last Report still appropriate: “In 
this very exceptional year, when many concerns not directly 
connected with the necessities of existence or the conduct 
of a great war must suffer more or less, it is not surprising 
to find that we have a less successful year than usual to record 
at our Biological Station. The thoughts and energies of 
most of us have been diverted to other channels ; and although 
it is right that in the mterests of others we should endeavour 
to keep all our affairs, so far as may be possible, running 
normally, still until more important and pressing matters 
are settled it is well that no unnecessary time, labour and 
expense should be devoted to what is not essential at the 
moment. Consequently the Committee and our other 
supporters and readers will, | am sure, understand and approve 
_ if the Report this year takes a shorter form than usual, and 
deals with little beyond the record of routine work carried 
out at the Port Erin Biological Station and elsewhere in the 
L.M.B.C. District.” | 
The “Station Record” and the “ Curator’s Report ” 
which follow show that during the Haster vacation and the 
Spring months, when both students and senior workers frequent 
our marine laboratory more than at any other time of the year, 
the numbers were greatly reduced. Last year we recorded 
ninety researchers and students occupying work-places in the 
laboratory; this year we had only fifteen. The effect of 
the war upon the number of visitors to the Aquarium was 
most striking. Port Erin was, comparatively speaking, 
