MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION ON PUFFIN ISLAND. 17 
of Mr. Fell, Mr. Muspratt, Mr. Ascroft, and Mr. Dawson 
of the Fisheries Committee, Dr. Chaster and several others 
of the Southport Natural Science Society, and Mr. 
Thompson, Mr. Leicester, Mr.. Comber, Mr. W. J. 
Stewart, the Mayor of Bootle, and others of our own 
Committee. Although many specimens were obtained on 
this occasion none, so far as yet determined, were specially 
noteworthy or new to our records, except some fine 
typical specimens of the Foraminifer Vaginulina linearis 
obtained from 20 fms., about 23 miles out from Southport. 
Later in the summer a few of the Southport biologists 
went out again for a day’s dredging in the ‘“‘ Mavis.”’ 
They report having found good ground and got good 
hauls (Ascidians, &c.). Unfortunately our Committee 
were not able to take part in that expedition, and the 
specimens were not preserved nor recorded. 
On September 26th we chartered the tug ‘‘ Spindrift ”’ 
for the day, and a considerable party left the Landing 
Stage in the morning, hoping to have some dredging in 
that central area, half-way to the Isle of Man, which 
seems so difficult to reach on our expeditions. With our 
usual luck we found on getting out of the river that there 
was a heavy sea, and although we persevered for some 
hours it was getting worse all the time, and so about 
one o’clock we turned back and had some hauls of the 
trawl in the afternoon in the Rock Channel where we got 
Starfishes, Zoophytes, Polyzoa, and other common things, 
none of them new to the locality. 
SURFACE FAUNA. 
Mr. Thompson, who has been receiving and examining 
the tow-nettings taken by the keeper at Puffin Island 
throughout the year and also those collected on the few 
expeditions, says that although valuable for statistical 
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