32 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Liverpool. The Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Birming- 

 ham and Manchester, and the University Colleges of Reading, 

 Nottingham and Aberystwyth, were also represented by 

 researchers and students. 



" Miss Knight, of the department of Botany of the 

 University of Liverpool, devoted the whole of July and 

 September to research upon the life-histories of certain 

 marine algae. Professor B. Moore, with his son Mr. T. Moore, 

 Mr. E. Whitley and Mr. T. A. Webster as coadjutors, continued 

 his research into the seasonal variation in the alkalinity of 

 sea-water, and was followed in the same line of research in 

 August by Mr. E. N. Allott, of the department of Chemistry, 

 University of Oxford. During the Easter vacation, Professor 

 Harvey-Gibson, assisted by Miss Knight, was engaged in 

 preparing drawings to show the diagnostic characters of the 

 species of Algae, for his forthcoming book on the subject. 

 In April, and again in September, Mrs. Bisbee devoted herself 

 to the physiology of Echinoderms, with special reference to 

 the direction of the currents in the madreporites of starfishes 

 and sea-urchins. During the Easter vacation, Miss C. Mayne 

 continued her work on the animal ecology of Port Erin Bay, 

 and Mr. G. F. Sleggs devoted some time to further work upon 

 the common barnacle, Balanus balanoides. 



" In addition to Professor Herdman's special plankton 

 investigations carried on between March and September, the 

 ordinary official bi-weekly tow-nettings were taken by the 

 Assistant Curator throughout the year, with only very 

 occasional interruptions due to unfavourable weather. General 

 faunistic work was carried on vigorously by all our biologist 

 workers, and amongst the large number of species collected 

 were some exceptionally large specimens of Lucernaria sp., 

 not previously recorded from Manx waters. These were 

 found by Professor Dakin and others on the boulder-strewn 

 beach of Bay-ny-Carrickey. 



