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and about 15 round the whole British Coast. We are 

 willing to play our part in any such general scheme, but 

 in the meantime we are going on with the work in our 

 own district. Mr. Thompson, Mr. Scott, Mr. Chadwick 

 and Mr. Ascroft are all at work, and we have drawn up 

 and agreed upon a common list of pelagic organisms the 

 occurrences of which in the various parts of our district 

 will be periodically registered. 



L.M.B.C. Memoirs and other Publications. 



After a rather longer interval than usual the 5th 

 volume of orir "Fauna and Flora of Liverpool Bay" has 

 been issued this winter. It contains reprints of the 

 L.M.B.C. papers and reports since 1895, the date of 

 publication of Yol. IY. 



A new recruit to our band of workers, Mr. Herbert 

 C. Robinson, who has recently joined the staff of the 

 Zoological Department of University College as 

 "Honorary Research Assistant," has undertaken to pre- 

 pare for our "Fauna" a report upon the Marine Birds 

 of the District. This will be ready for publication early 

 in 1901, and Mr. Robinson has supplied me with the 

 following note in regard to it : — 



" Defining ' Sea and Shore Birds ' in the most liberal 

 sense, the L.M.B.C. area may be said to harbour some 

 80 to 100 species, of which, however, a very considerable 

 proportion are of purely accidental occurrence. It is 

 proposed to compile a list of those species which can in 

 any sense be termed littoral or marine, which as far as is 

 known have occurred in the district during the present 

 century, whether as occasional visitors, on migration, or 

 as residents. To each order will be prefixed a simple key, 

 which it is hoped will render it possible to identify any 

 species which is at all likely to be met with, whilst short 

 descriptions of the various plumages and records of 



