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there is room, and after formal application to the Director, 

 are : — (1) Annual Subscribers of one guinea or upwards to the 

 funds (each guinea subscribed entitling to the use of a work 

 place for three weeks), and (2) others who are not annual 

 subscribers, but who pay the Treasurer 10s. per week for the 

 accommodation and privileges. Institutions, such as Univer- 

 sities and Museums, may become subscribers in order that a 

 work place may be at the disposal of their students or staff for a 

 certain period annually ; a subscription of two guineas will 

 secure a work place for six weeks in the year, a subscription of 

 five guineas for four months, and a subscription of £10 for the 

 whole year. 



VI. — Each worker is entitled to a work place opposite a 

 window in the Laboratory, and may make use of the micro- 

 scopes and other apparatus, and of the boats, dredges, tow-nets, 

 &c, so far as is compatible with the claims of other workers, 

 and with the routine work of the Station. 



VII. — Each worker will be allowed to use one pint of 

 methylated spirit per week free. Any further amount required 

 must be paid for. All dishes, jars, bottles, tubes, and other 

 glass may be used freely, but must not be taken away from the 

 Laboratory. Workers desirous of making, preserving, or taking 

 away collections of marine animals and plants, can make 

 special arrangements with the Director or Treasurer in regard 

 to bottles and preservatives. Although workers in the Station 

 are free to make their own collections at Port Erin, it must be 

 clearly understood that (as in other Biological Stations) no 

 specimens must be taken for such purposes from the Laboratory 

 stock, nor from the Aquarium tanks, nor from the steam-boat 

 dredging expeditions, as these specimens are the property of the 

 Committee. The specimens in the Laboratory stock are pre- 

 served for sale, the animals in the tanks are for the instruction 

 of visitors to the Aquarium, and as all the expenses of steam- 

 boat dredging expeditions are defrayed by the Committee, the 



