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samples were taken across Port Erin Bay with regularity twice 
i each week, during most weeks in the year. Special series of — 
gatherings were also taken almost daily during April, August 
and September, as part of the work in connection with the 
scheme of “ Intensive Study of the Plankton ” which has now 
been in progress for over ten years. 
It may be useful to students and others proposing to work 
at Port Erin that the ground plan of the buildings showing 
the laboratory and other accommodation should be inserted 
here (see fig. 1, p. 17). 
As on previous occasions, the statistics as to the use made 
of the Laboratories during the year will be given, in the form 
of a “Curator’s Report”’; and after that, I have added a 
short account of the life and work of the recent Oceanographer, 
Sir John Murray—which seems to follow naturally after the 
discussion, in last year’s Report, of the results of the 
‘Challenger’ Expedition. This completes the series of studies 
of three notable British pioneers in Oceanography, Forbes, 
Wyville Thomson and Murray, which it is hoped may prove 
useful for the information of our students and other workers 
at the laboratory. 
CURATOR’S REPORT. 
Mr. Chadwick reports to me as follows on the various 
departments of the work :— ; 
Station Record. 
‘Twenty-one workers—exactly the same number as 
last year—occupied tables in our laboratories during the past 
year. Twelve of these were undergraduates of the University 
of Liverpool, who undertook the fortnight’s course of instruction 
given by Professor Herdman, Mr. R. D. Laurie and Miss R. C. 
Bamber on the shore, in the field and in the laboratory; the 
remaining nine were researchers or advanced students. 
