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going, and also to kind friends like Mr. Gossage and 

 Mrs. Holt, who have given us special larger donations to 

 be applied to particular purposes. But if we had more 

 money there is no doubt a great deal more work could be 

 undertaken. We ought to have a larger Laboratory at 

 Port Erin, a fish hatchery attached to it would be most 

 useful, and a fund such as would enable us to make a 

 freer use of boats and engage steam trawlers more 

 frequently for expeditions would be a great advantage. 



My second remark is that we want not only money 

 but also Men. Personally I think more of men than of 

 money. This L.M.B.C. work was started on the principles 

 of co-operation and sub-division of labour, each man — 

 and woman — cultivating his or her own little corner of 

 the field, and there is still plenty of waste land to reclaim. 

 We want new recruits, and especially young, active, 

 enthusiastic recruits, and we can offer them the most 

 delightful of pursuits — field work in Natural History. 

 It is the most healthy, the most happy, the 

 most engrossing and the most satisfying, physically, 

 mentally and morally, of all occupations. Even 

 taken merely as a hobby, it has been found by man}?- busy 

 professional and business men that the pursuit of some 

 branch of Natural History adds a new pleasure to 

 existence, gives them a constant interest in their open-air 

 surroundings, lifts them above the petty cares and 

 worries of the work-a-day life, and lets a little of the sun- 

 shine of Nature into their souls. 



The subject of Marine Biology is as wide and as 

 varied as the sea that environs it, and it bristles with 

 problems of every description. The collector and classi- 

 fier, the observer of habits, the investigator of life- 

 histories, the morphologist studying structure, and the 

 physiologist function, the bacteriologist and the chemico- 



