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Odds and ends of investigation carried out by Mr. J. R. 

 Bruce, M.Sc, during the few intervals of time that were 

 available for scientific work as apart from that of seeing to the 

 control and further equipment of the Station ; 



Plankton collections made by Professor Herdman and 

 the description of these by Mr. A. Scott ; 



A study of the " colossal " accumulation of data repre- 

 senting the results of the plankton collections made by Professor 

 Herdman, and identified and enumerated by Mr. A. Scott 

 during the last fifteen years : Dr. Johnstone is doing this. 



Wherever noteworthy scientific results have been obtained 

 the above researches are mentioned, in rather more detail, 

 further on in this Report. 



The work done by Messrs. Birtwistle and Smith is part 

 of a larger scheme adumbrated by the Ministry of Agriculture 

 and Fisheries. 



The condition of the Station is, I think, thoroughly healthy. 

 A great deal of research work is in progress and its completion 

 or expansion awaits additional resources for collecting and 

 study at Port Erin itself, or the opportunity for publication 

 in this Report or elsewhere. Undoubtedly, much still remains 

 to be done in the way of collecting material for investigation 

 and particularly in providing for experimental work in the 

 Station. Various reproaches made by the staff of the Zool- 

 ogical Departments at Liverpool and elsewhere are stimulating 

 us to the further improvement of the aquarium and laboratories 

 in the ways indicated, and I hope that, in the course of time, 

 no investigator visiting Port Erin will have any reasonable 

 cause for dissatisfaction. 



Curator's Report. 



Sixty-six workers — a considerably smaller number than 

 that of last year — occupied our laboratories. The great 

 majority came from the departments of Zoology, Botany and 



