MABINE BIOLOGICAL STATION ON PUFBIN ISLAND. 55 



The present condition of the inscription is this : — 

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 We are to have neighbours on Puffin Island in future. 

 The rabbitting, &c, on the Island has been let by Sir 

 Eichard Bulkeley to Jeremiah Griffiths, from Bangor — 

 the use of the house, &c, for scientific purposes, being 

 reserved as before for our Committee, as I am courteously 

 informed by Mr. Preston, the agent for the estate. 

 The ruined cottage at St. Seiriol's old church on the top 

 of the Island is now being repaired as a habitation for 

 Jeremiah Griffiths, and as he and his sons propose to 

 carry on fishing operations of various kinds all the year 

 round in the neighbourhood of the Island, the biologists 

 may regard this industrial invasion with equanimity, and 

 even satisfaction. I am sure that the scientific and the 

 economic exploration of the " Turbot Hole" will go on 

 peacefully side by side, and prove mutually beneficial. 



Fig. 5. — St. Seiriol's Church tower and. old cottage on Puffin Island, 

 (From a "Kodak" photograph). 



