14 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
On the other hand it is possible that all such purely 
local work might be adequately undertaken in connection 
with the College Laboratories, and that the L.M.B.C. 
Station should be regarded as a means of investigating 
more outlying areas; and therefore several of the Com- 
mittee are strongly of opinion that if we leave Puffin 
Island the station should be established at Port Erin, 
near the south end of the Isle of Man, for a few years, in 
order that the rich marine fauna of that neighbourhood 
may be more fully investigated. 
PUBLICATIONS. 
It is proposed to issue the third volume ot reports on 
the Fauna and Flora of Liverpool Bay during the coming 
season. Most of the sheets and plates for it have been 
printed off and stored, but as it is desired to include also 
those papers on the marine biology of the district which 
