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or an average number of 646 per lobster. This also compares 

 unfavourably with the average of 1,223 yielded by the spawners 

 last year. Of the total number of larvae 9,050 were set free in 

 the first stage, the number of rearing jars being still inadequate. 

 The balance of 652 were placed in the rearing jars and fed 

 exclusively on plankton. One hundred and seventy-two — or 

 slightly more than 1 in 4 — were successfully reared to the 

 lobsterling stage and set free. 



The Aquarium. 



" The Aquarium has again shared the returning prosperity 

 of the Isle of Man, 23,622 visitors having been admitted 

 during the past year. Every effort was made to make the tanks 

 as attractive as possible. The display of sea-anemones was 

 larger and more varied than ever before, and attracted a large 

 share of attention on the part of the more intelligent visitors. 

 The third edition of the Guide to the Aquarium was exhausted 

 before the end of the season, 1,666 copies having been sold. 



(Signed) H. C. Chadwick." 



Report of the Edward Forbes Exhibitioner. 



An " Edward Forbes Exhibition " was founded* in 

 1915, at the University of Liverpool, in commemoration of 

 the pioneer marine biological work done in this district by 

 the celebrated Manx naturalist, who was born about a 

 hundred years ago. The object of the Exhibition is to enable 

 some post-graduate student of the University to proceed 

 to the Port Erin Biological Station for the purpose of carrying 

 on some piece of biological research, more or less in continuation 

 of the line of work opened up by Forbes, or an investigation 

 which has grown out of such work. 



The Edward Forbes Exhibitioner for the year 1919 is 



* The Regulations in regard to the Exhibition will be found at p. 85. 



