24 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
storage tanks, but do not appear in the spawning ponds. This 
is probably accounted for by the daily varying level of the 
water in the former, which to some extent resembles the ebb 
and flow of the tide on the beach. Karly in August the growth 
of a colony of the beautiful Hydroid Tubularia larynx was 
noticed in one of the half-gallon glass jars used for rearing 
lobster larvae in the Hatchery. The first polyp of the colony 
had established itself at the bottom and close to the side of 
the jar, and from it the creeping stolons subsequently grew 
to left and right along the junction of the side with the bottom 
of the jar, and to a small extent over the latter. Polyps arose 
at frequent intervals from the stolons, and were frequently 
seen to catch with their tentacles and feed upon the Copepods 
which were put into the jar as food for the lobster larvae. The 
colony attained a length of 34 inches (see fig. 2). 
(Signed) H. C. CHAapwicK.” 
REPORT OF THE EDWARD ForRBES EXHIBITIONER. 
An “ Edward Forbes Exhibition” was founded* in 
1915, at the University of Liverpool, in commemoration of 
the pioneer marine biological work done in this district by 
the celebrated Manx Naturalist, who was born about a 
hundred years ago. The object of the Exhibition is to enable 
some post-graduate student of the University to proceed 
to the Port Erin Biological Station for the purpose of carrying 
on some piece of biological research, more or less in continuation 
of some line of work opened up by Forbes, or an investigation 
which has grown out of such work. : 
The Edward Forbes Exhibitioner for the year 1917 is 
CuaRLorTe M. P. Srarrorp, B.Sc., who spent a couple of 
weeks at Port Erin in the Spring, working at some points in 
*The Regulations in regard to the Exhibition will be found at p. 67. 
