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the microscope shows them to be as full of interest as 

 those familiar to our ordinary vision. Besides the many 

 free-swimming Copepods, there are also many species 

 found as fish parasites, living on the gills and on other 

 external parts of our common fishes ; some of these are 

 nourished by the fish and do harm, while others do not, 

 their presence being probably rather an advantage than 

 otherwise." Mr. Thompson was cordially thanked for 

 his address, and then the formal meeting broke up, and 

 the visitors were taken in parties round the laboratory 

 and aquarium to see the animals in the tanks and the 

 specimens under microscopes. 



We were glad on this occasion to welcome to Port 

 Erin the Rev. E. H. Kempson, the new Principal of King 

 William College, who expressed a desire that the boys 

 of the School might have some opportunities of visiting 

 the Biological Station. That we readily arranged for, 

 and a few weeks later Mr. Kempson brought over from 



Outside of Biological Station. 



