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the remainder of the year the Curator and his staff made 

 periodic collections from time to time as occasion offered, 

 and plankton samples were taken across Port Erin Bay with 

 regularity twice in each week throughout the year. Special 

 series of gatherings from the motor boat 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 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 occupation 

 of the " Tables " during the year will first be given, then 

 will follow the " Curator's Report," and after that, I have 

 considered it appropriate to follow up the account I gave in 

 last report of the great Manx Naturalist, Professor Edward 

 Forbes, by a brief account of that later Oceanographer. 

 Sir Wyville Thomson, and his connection with the celebrated 

 "Challenger" Expedition (see p. 31) 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 occupied tables in our laboratories 

 during the past year. This number, compared with that of 

 last year, represents an increase of six ; and it is gratifying 

 to record that in spite of the distractions of the war, original 

 research once more takes a distinct place in the record of the 

 year's activities. The Easter vacation work was carried on 

 under the direction of Professor Herdman and with the 



