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for sale on July 19th, and though, owing to the greatly 

 increased cost of printing, it was found necessary to raise the 

 price from threepence to sixpence, 843 copies were sold. 

 The display of local fishes was more representative than it has 

 been since pre-war days. Plaice hatched in three consecutive 

 years, and larval lobsters in various stages of development, 

 were exhibited, and attracted much attention. 



(Signed) H. C. Chad wick." 



Report of the Edward Forbes Exhibitioner. 



An " Edward Forbes Exhibition " was founded* in 1915, 

 at the University of Liverpool, in commemoration of the 

 pioneer marine biological work done in this district by the 

 celebrated Manx naturalist, who was born about a hundred 

 years ago. The object of the Exhibition is to enable some 

 postgraduate student of the University to proceed to the 

 Port Erin Biological Station for the purpose of carrying on 

 some piece of biological research, more or less in continuation 

 of the line of work opened up by Forbes, or an investigation 

 which has grown out of such work. 



The Edward Forbes Exhibitioner for the year 1920 is 

 Miss Laura Thorpe, B.Sc, who spent several weeks during 

 the Easter vacation in an investigation of the food-contents 

 of the alimentary canal of various common molluscs and other 

 invertebrates of the seashore. Unfortunately, Miss Thorpe 

 sprained her ankle on a collecting expedition at Poolvaash 

 early in the time, and was laid up for some days and unable 

 to make any further observations on the beach, although 

 when able to work she was kept supplied with fresh material 

 by the other Liverpool students. Miss Thorpe has submitted 

 a detailed report upon all the species she was able to examine, 

 but as she proposes to continue her interrupted work during 



*The Regulations in regard to the Exhibition will be found at p. 52. 



