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year and have proved useful additions to the somewhat 

 meagre accommodation at the Station. 



Publications. 

 Since the last Eeport no new volume of the " Fauna "* 

 has been issued, but several L.M.B.C. papers have been 

 communicated in the usual way to the Biological Society 

 and published in the Transactions. Extra copies of these 

 in sheets have been printed off for the purpose of being 

 included in the third volume of the " Fauna " which will 

 probably be ready some time in 1892. These papers 

 are : — (1.) a third report by Dr. R. Hanitsch, on the 

 Sponges of the district, a lengthy paper illustrated by six 

 plates, adding twelve species to our record and three 

 species new to science, containing a re-description of the 

 remarkable Seiriola compacta from the caves on Puffin 

 Island, and giving an account of the enormous masses of 

 Cliona celata obtained off Rhoscolyn, on the west coast of 

 Anglesey, during the "Hyaena" cruise of May, 1890; 

 (2.) a list of the land Mollusca of Puffin Island, by Mr. 

 Alfred Leicester; (3) a report (one plate) by Mr. Alfred 

 0. Walker on the Higher Crustacea collected during 

 1889, containing some notes on Cumacea, and a descrip- 

 tion for the first time of the adult male of the Amphipod 

 Podocerus isopus ; (4) a paper by Mr. I. C. Thompson, on 

 the remarkable Copepod genus Monstrilla and the family 

 Cymbasomatidae ; and (5) the third report on the Nudi- 

 branchiata, by Professor Herdman and Mr. J. A. Clubb, 

 with four plates, and containing some further investiga- 



* Volume I. of the Fauna of Liverpool Bay, price 8/6, was published in 

 1886. It contains 372 pp. and 12 plates. Vol. II., price 7/6, and containing 

 240 pp. and 12 plates, was issued in July, 1889. Copies of these may he 

 obtained on application to the Liverpool Marine Biology Committee, Univer- 

 sity College, Liverpool, 



