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The plan of Port Erin Bay (Fig. 4) shows the position 

 and surroundings of both this first and also of the present 

 larger Biological Station, and gives some idea of the depths 

 and nature of the collecting grounds inside the Bay. 



On the occasion of the opening of the Station the Liverpool 

 Salvage Association lent their steamer " Mallard " for several 

 days dredging and tow-netting around the south end of the 

 Island, when large collections were made at depths down to 

 60 fathoms. 



The opening of the Biological Station afc Port Erin at 

 once led to greatly increased numbers of workers, and during 

 the summer of 1892, in addition to members of the Committee 

 and Liverpool students, marine biologists from Manchester, 

 Sheffield, Cambridge, Aberystwyth, London and Edinburgh 

 spent some time in the laboratory. Mr. W. J. Beaumont from 

 Cambridge made some interesting observations on the polypes 

 of the rare Alcyonarian Sarcodictyon, and Mr. E. T. Browne 

 from London started those investigations on the Medusoids 

 of Hydroid Zoophytes upon which he has written many papers 

 since. 



Amongst other interesting animals found during that 

 summer in the immediate neighbourhood of Port Erin were 

 the Foraminifera, Astrorhiza limicola and Haliphysema 

 tumanowiczii, the tubicolous Infusorian Folliculina ampulla, 

 the Turbellarian Convoluta, the remarkable worms Dinophilus 

 toeniatus and Spadella, and quite a number of Nudibranchs 

 and Compound Ascidians. Mr. Walker continued to add new 

 records of Amphipoda and Mr. Thompson of Copepoda, one 

 of the latter being Notopterophorus papilio, an interesting 

 addition to our fauna. 



At the meeting of the British Association held that, summer 

 in Edinburgh some of our more active workers were constituted 

 a Research Committee of the Association with a granl t<> be 

 expended in exploring further the southern part of the Irish 



