28 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Liverpool Marine Biology Committee Table ; — 



Mr. T. Southwell, A.R.C.S. Rev. T. S. Lea. 



Mr. Nils Hagman. Rev. A. F. Mitchell. 



Mr. Arnold T. Watson, F.L.S. Dr. J. H. O'Connell. 



Manchester University Table ; — 



Miss A. Isgrove. Miss M. Kershaw. 



Isle of Man Natural History Society Table ; — 



Mr. P. M. C. Kermode. Mr. Wilkins. 



In addition, Mr. Robert Okell, F.L.S. , Secretary to 

 the Manx Fishery Board, paid frequent official visits to 

 the Biological Station. 



Curator's Report. 



I take the following paragraphs almost verbatim 

 from the detailed report furnished to me by Mr. H. (,\ 

 Chadwick : — 



In addition to a good deal of general work done by 

 the undergraduates of the Universities of Liverpool and 

 Manchester, several important lines of original research 

 were pursued by other more advanced workers. During 

 the Christmas vacation Mr. Southwell, then of the Royal 

 College of Science, carried on some research on the 

 histology of the Calcareous Sponges. He was followed 

 at the end of January by Mr. Nils Hagman, of the 

 University of Helsingfors, who resumed some researches 

 on the gases of the air-bladder of Fishes upon 

 which he had previously been engaged at Bergen. 

 Next in point of time came Mr. Pearson, who devoted 

 a fortnight to the study of the blood system of the 

 edible crab. Later, in the Easter vacation, Mr. Dakin 

 devoted himself to the embryology of the plaice, and some 

 preliminary work on the anatomy and physiology of 

 Pecten maaimus, while Dr. Roaf conducted some research 

 on the digestive ferments of some typical marine animals. 

 By no means the least interesting of the year's researches 



