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evening into the sponge caves and saw in the dim light those 

 curions white masses on the rock which some thirteen centuries 

 after were dedicated to his memory 



" We collected altogether on this occasion thirteen species 

 of Nudibranchs, including the rare Eolis landsburgi ; also a 

 very remarkable sponge belonging to the genus Suberiles, 

 and another sponge of a dark orange colour — one of the 

 Desmacidonidse — which was found by Br. Hanitsch in one 

 of the caves. This will probably turn out to be an interesting 

 novelty as the sponge is in symbiosis with a Zoophyte. The 

 hydrorhiza of the Zoophyte permeates the sponge in all 

 directions and replaces to a certain extent the missing spongin 

 fibres. The spicules of the sponge are found echinating the 

 hydrorhiza of the Zoophyte." 



This brings us to the time of the formation of the 

 Lancashire Sea-Fisheries Committee, with which, from the 

 first, we established friendly, and immediately afterwards, 

 official connections. Mr. R. A. Dawson, the Fisheries Superin- 

 tendent of the district, took part in some of our expeditions and 

 gradually enlisted our services in Sea-Fisheries work, which 

 led to considerable results in the future. 



The Sixth Annual Report, for the year 1892, started a 

 new record as the first of the series of nearly thirty reports 

 dealing with the Biological Station at Port Erin. The Puffin 

 Island establishment had been very useful to the Committee, 

 and was well worth the small annual expenditure required for 

 its modest outfit. It had been used by some students of the 

 local Colleges who wished to gain a general knowledge of the 

 common marine animals and plants in a living state, and by a 

 considerable number of specialists who went there to make 

 observations, or who had the material for their investigations 

 collected there and sent to them. 



It had been felt, however, by the Committee for some 

 time that a station which was more readily accessible from 



