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THE 
MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN 
BEING THE 
THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT 
OF THE 
LIVERPOOL MARINE BIOLOGY COMMITTEE. 
| By Proressorn W. A. Herpman, F.R.S. 
This is our last war-time Report. It seems probable that: 
hostilities will have ceased and peace be assured before this 
Report is printed, and that we may reasonably hope for a 
return to more normal conditions of work at Biological 
Stations and other research institutions during the coming 
year. It will no doubt take some time before we can work 
up again to the same high level of prosperity and usefulness 
that we enjoyed in the few years previous to 1914; but the 
growing demand for scientific education and training in 
original investigation ought soon to lead to a marked increase 
in the number of both undergraduate students and more 
advanced post-graduate workers at a place offermg the 
facilities and attractions found at Port Erin. 
In 1914 we recorded ninety researchers and students 
occupying work-places in the laboratory. The “Station 
Record ” and other parts of the Curator’s Report that follows, 
shows that in 1918 we had sixteen workers, including a class 
of eleven senior students during the Kaster vacation. — 
The number of visitors to the Aquarium has greatly 
increased during the past year, and the total given by the 
Curator is a good deal more than double that recorded for 
1917. The work of the staff at the Biological Station has been 
carried on as usual, and large collections of the plankton in 
the bay have been made throughout the year. 
As on previous occasions the statistics as to the use made 
