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EIGHTH ANNUAL EEPOKT of the LIYEKPOOL 



MAKINE BIOLOGY COMMITTEE and their 



BIOLOGICAL STATION at POET EBIN. 



By W. A. Herdman, D.Sc, F.B.S. 



DERBY PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LIVERPOOL ; 



CHAIRMAN OF THE LIVERPOOL MARINE BIOLOGY COMMITTEE, 



AND DIRECTOR OF THE PORT ERIN STATION. 



[Read 9th November, 1894.] 



The work at Port Erin continues to flourish, and the 

 investigation of the Irish Sea generally is increasing in 

 scope. The laboratory has been well used during vacation 

 times ; there have been a considerable number of dredging 

 expeditions, and several new lines of investigation have 

 been started which promise well. As there is much to 

 report upon, I shall pass at once to the usual statistical 

 statements without further introduction ; and for informa- 

 tion in regard to the foundation and equipment of the 

 Biological Station, and as to the aims and methods of the 

 Committee, reference must be made to former reports.* 

 As usual, I am indebted to several of my colleagues on 

 the Committee and to workers at the Station for kind 

 help which they have given me in the preparation of this 

 annual record. 



Station Be coed. 

 The following naturalists have worked at the Station 

 during the past year : — 



DATE. NAME. WORK. 



March. I. C. Thompson Copepoda. 



— W. A. Herdman Tunicata. 



— C. H. Hurst Collecting. 



* Copies of the Sixth Report (56 pp. and 6 plates), in stiff boards, and 

 containing an account of the opening of the Station at Port Erin in 1892 by- 

 Governor Walpole, can still be had, price one shilling each, on application to 

 the Hon. Treasurer. 



