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the auspices of some society in London or Edinburgh. 

 The fact is — and a very important and gratifying fact it 

 must be to our subscribers and supporters who 

 have helped us from year to year — that we have 

 now in connection with our Committee an exceed- 

 ingly active School of Marine Biology, every worker 

 in which is engaged in some piece of original 

 research. Liverpool is the right and natural place for 

 a School of Marine Biology, and I hope that Liverpool 

 will consider that it is creditable to the city that such 

 local researches should be published by a Liverpool 

 Society. An addition of about £100 a year to our 

 funds is necessary in order to enable us to do justice 

 to the work now being produced by our colleagues and 

 students. 



The Biological exploration of Liverpool Bay has all 

 along been intimately connected with University College, 

 and it is to be hoped that when the time comes — and it 

 ought not to be long delayed — for building new biological 

 laboratories, accommodation will be provided within the 

 department for our School of Marine Biology. A museum 

 devoted to exhibiting the products of the local seas, and a 

 laboratory fitted for conducting researches upon marine 

 life, must surely be constituent parts of the University of 

 a great sea-port. 



