26 transactions liverpool biological society. 

 Report of the Edward Forbes Exhibitioner. 



An " Edward Forbes Exhibition " was founded* last 

 year, 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 1916 is 

 Emma Louise Gleave, M.Sc, who spent a couple of weeks 

 at Port Erin in the spring and summer working at some points 

 in the structure of the large Nudibranch, Boris tuberculata. 

 with the view of preparing an L.M.B.C. Memoir on the subject. 

 Miss Gleave reports as follows on her work at Port Erin : — 



" I went to Port Erin on April 12th and returned to Liver- 

 pool on April 28th. When I arrived at the Biological Station I 

 found that a number of specimens of Doris tuberculata had 

 been collected by Miss Bamber and the Liverpool University 

 students during the previous good tides, so that I was able to 

 begin work on them immediately. 



" I spent a considerable amount of time in narcotising 

 these specimens, and discovered that fresh water added in small 

 quantities to the sea water in which the animals were living 

 was a much better narcotising agent than any I had tried 

 previously, e.g., cocaine, chloroform. I used many of the 

 freshly narcotised specimens for the study of the morphology 

 of the reproductive ducts, by injecting carmine jelly and other 

 coloured substances into different parts of the reproductive 

 organs. I also took the opportunity of examining the eyes 



* The Regulations in regard to the Exhibition will be found at p. 70. 



