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in the tanks, some of which, gorgeous red starfishes, 

 spotted sea-anemones, and long-legged crabs, were the 

 delight of visitors to the Aquarium during the next week 

 or two. 



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Red Starfish. 



Notes on Work Done in the District. 



As usual my companions and fellow-workers in the 

 Committee have kindly supplied me with brief reports as 

 to their work in their own respective groups of animals 

 during the year. In most cases these are merely pre- 

 liminary notices of work which will appear in their own 

 future papers in our volumes of the Fauna or in L.M.B.C. 

 Memoirs. 



Mr. I. C. Thompson reports as follows: — 

 "As in previous years, Mr. Chadwick has forwarded 

 to me for examination tow-net gatherings taken about 

 Port Erin Bay throughout the year. In addition to these 

 I have collected material during several visits to the 

 Biological Station. In last year's Report mention Avas 

 made of some shoals of rare species of Copepoda taken for 

 the first time in the L.M.B.C. district. One of these, the 



