MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION ON PUFFIN ISLAND. 15 
will be laid before the Biological Society during the 
present session, and especially the revised reports upon 
the Copepoda (by Mr. Thompson), the Mollusca (by Mr. 
Archer), and the Pycnogonida (by Dr. Hurst and Mr. 
Walker), the volume will probably not be in the hands of 
the public until early summer. 
The various L.M.B.C. papers which were announced in 
last year’s Report as being nearly ready for publication 
were communicated in due course to the Buiological 
Society and printed in the fifth volume of Transactions. 
The two most important of these are:—an extensive 
report by Mr. Harvey Gibson on the Marine Alge, in- 
cluding records of 256 species of which 66 are additions to 
our list; and a report on the Polychetous Annelids, by 
Mr. J. Hornell, in which 88 species (one new to science) 
and two new varieties are given, three of the species 
being new to British waters and 39 additions to our local 
fauna. Mr. Moore’s long promised report upon the 
Fishes is not yet ready. This is the more to be regretted 
as in view of the ever increasing attention which is being 
directed towards fishes, the formation of a Fisheries 
Committee of the County Council, the establishment of a 
Sea Fisheries District in our neighbourhood and the 
appointment of a superintendent (Mr. R. A. Dawson), 
with a steamer at his service and a staff of assistants, it is 
most desirable that we should publish a report upon the 
local fishes without further delay. It is hoped that Mr. 
Moore’s improved health will permit him now to make 
more rapid progress with the work. 
DREDGING EXPEDITIONS. 
For the first time in the history of these annual reports 
we have no ‘“‘ Hyena” expedition to record. The Salvage 
Association, with their usual kindness, permitted us to 
