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our work at Port Erin, we keep his words, as well as his familiar 
features, constantly before us as an example and an inspiration. 
We hope in the Island to have some day a worthy Manx 
National Museum, at Douglas, and when that temple of the 
natural and antiquarian sciences comes to be reared, one of 
the principal halls—designed to contain the vast collections 
of marine biology, and to illustrate the applications of that 
science to the sea-fisheries—will surely be dedicated to the 
immortal memory of Edward Forbes, the great Manx naturalist, 
who first made known the abundant treasures of our seas. 
