MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN. AT 
REPORT OF THE EDWARD ForRBES EXHIBITIONER. 
An “Edward Forbes Exhibition” has been founded* 
this year, at the University of Liverpool, in commemoration 
of the pioneer marine biological work done in this district 
by the celebrated Manx Naturalist, who was born just a 
hundred years ago. The object of the Exhibition is to enable 
some post-graduate student of the University to proceed 
to the Port Erin Biological Station for the purpose of carrying 
on some piece of biological research, more or less in continuation 
of some line of work opened up by Forbes, or an investigation 
which has grown out of such work. 
The first Edward Forbes Exhibitioner, elected for the 
year 1915, is RutH CunsHaw Bamper, M.Sc., who spent 
a couple of weeks at Port Erm in the summer working 
at the structure and life-history of the large Hydroid Zoophyte, 
Tubularia indivisa, with the view of eventually preparing an 
L.M.B.C. Memoir on the subject. Miss Bamber reports as 
follows on her work at Port Erin :— . 
“T went to Port Erin on July 29th, and returned to 
Liverpool on August 14th. During my stay I spent most 
of the time in examining living specimens of Tubularia, and 
in fixing and preserving material to bring back to Liverpool 
for sectioning during the winter. 
‘ Only two species of Tubularia were find -—T. indwisa, 
which grows in abundance around the ‘Sugar Loaf Rock,’ 
near Port St. Mary, and 7. larynx, which grows in a small 
colony on the Sker Rock, off Bradda Head at Port Erin. 
All the specimens of 7. indivisa were found to be in a newly 
decapitated condition, there being no mature hydranths in 
any of the colonies examined ; but there was every possible 
stage in the regeneration of the hydranth. The colonies of 
*The Regulations in regard to the Exhibition will be found in 
Appendix B at the end of this Report. 
