MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN. 15 



" In response to an invitation by the Isle of Man 

 Fisheries Board, representatives of the various Insular 

 education authorities met in the junior laboratory on 

 April 6th to hear an address from Professor Herdman on 

 " Education," especially in its relations to modern science 

 and modern requirements. The Deemster Callow 

 occupied the chair, the Clerk of the Rolls and other 

 members of the Council of Education were present, and 

 in the course of the lecture Professor Herdman showed 

 how an institution such as the Biological Station might 

 be utilised by the schools of the Island for purposes of 

 training in observation and for giving facilities to 

 teachers in connection with some aspects of higher 

 education." 



Mr. Dakin's Report. 



" The following is a brief account of some of the 

 research carried out during my stay at Port Erin, which 

 lasted four months, from April 1st until the end of July. 

 My time was spent chiefly on three subjects, two of which 

 are more or less related, and work on these was com- 

 menced at the Zoological Station of Naples. During the 

 month of April, whilst Professor Herdman was at Port 

 Erin, I took charge of the hydrographical observations 

 made from his yacht, simultaneously with the plankton 

 cat dies. There is now a very complete set of hydro- 

 graphic apparatus at Port Erin, and I was able to fit up 

 a small chemical laboratory with the necessary apparatus 

 for the analysis of sea-water, so far as chlorine and oxygen 

 are concerned. A very complete series of observations 

 was made, which will be published in connection with 

 Professor Herdman's Plankton Studies. Alter the Easter 

 vacation, quantitative tow-nettings were taken regularly 

 twice a week at ;i locality OUJ al sea, two to three miles 



