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of such an institution for fish, culture. It may be added here 

 that legal and administrative difficulties were found to be an 

 insuperable bar, and the Lancashire Committee had to find 

 another locality, namely, Piel Island in the Barrow Channel, 

 within their own administrative district ; but some years 

 later the Manx Government took up the same matter, and in 

 co-operation with the Liverpool Marine Biology Committee 

 erected the new Biological Station and Fish Hatchery at the 

 opposite side of Port Erin Bay. A connection was, however, 

 at this time established between our Port Erin Station and 

 the Lancashire Sea-Fisheries Committee, which has been 

 continued through the intervening years, has led to a good 

 deal of co-operation, and will be still closer in the future now 

 that the scientific work of both is united in the Department of 

 Oceanography at the University of Liverpool. 



On several occasions in 1893 we had the use of the Lanca- 

 shire Sea-Fisheries steamer " John Fell " for taking observations 

 in the deeper waters around the Isle of Man, and especially in 

 the deep channel lying between Port Erin and Ireland, where 

 we worked down to a depth of 79 fathoms in the interesting 

 assemblage of mud-inhabiting animals, including Bougainvillia 

 wiuscus, Adamsia palliata, Sagartia herdmani (on Turritella 

 shells), Porania pidvillus, Palmipes membranaceus, Amphiura 

 chiajii, Brissopsis lyrifera, Lumbriconereis sp., Panthalis 

 oerstedi, Lipobranchius jeffreysii, Hyalinoscia tubicola, Alcyon- 

 idium gelatinosum, Scalpellum vulgar e (on Antennularia) , 

 Calocaris macandrece with its associated Polyzoon Triticella 

 boeckii, Rissoa abyssicola^ Nucula sulcata and Isocardia cor. 



A further account of work on this ground and of the 

 nature of the bottom deposits in various parts of our area 

 will be found in the report for the following year, which includes 

 also a record of Mr. Arnold Watson's interesting observations 

 on the method of tube-building by Panthalis oerstedi. From 

 this time onwards Mr. Watson took up this subject, the method 



