THE 



MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN 



BEING THE 



THIRTIETH ANNUAL REPORT 



OF THE 



LIVERPOOL MARINE BIOLOGY COMMITTEE. 

 By Professor W. A. Herdman, F.R.S. 



In this third year of the Great War, the Committee and 

 our other supporters and readers will, I am sure, understand 

 and approve if the Report again takes a shorter form than 

 usual, and deals with little beyond the record of routine work 

 carried out at the Port Erin Biological Station and elsewhere 

 in the L.M.B.C. District. 



The "Station Record" and the "Curator's Report" 

 which follow show that during the Easter vacation and the 

 Spring months, when both students and senior workers frequent 

 our marine laboratory more than at any other time of the year, 

 the numbers, though still greatly reduced in comparison with 

 the few years preceding the war, were greater than in 1915. 

 In 1914 we recorded ninety researchers and students occupying 

 work-places in the laboratory ; last year we had only fifteen, 

 the present report shows twenty- one. The number of visitors 

 to the Aquarium is now nearly double what it was in 1915, 

 but is far below the usual numbers for recent years. 



In regard to the educational work in the laboratories, 

 the usual Easter vacation course in Marine Biology was carried 

 on during April by members of the staff of the Zoology 

 department of the University of Liverpool. The only other 

 Universities represented were Bedford College, London, and 

 the University of Birmingham. 



Work out at sea was wholly prevented, by Admiralty 

 regulations, but collecting expeditions as usual, along the 

 shore at low tide, were arranged in the Easter vacation. During 



