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Scott, Assistant Naturalist on the staff of the Lancashire 

 Sea-Fisheries, became very active in investigating the Copepoda 

 along with Mr. Thompson, and added many rare and some 

 new species to our lists. Some examples of the assemblages of 

 animals found in characteristic hauls in different parts of the 

 Irish Sea will be found in this year's Report (1895). The first 

 given, for example, records at least 112 species belonging to 

 103 genera, represented by probably about 300 specimens ; 

 and many other hauls taken on the prolific ground to the west 

 of the Isle of Man gave us on an average about 100 species. 

 On the other hand hauls taken off the Lancashire coast in 

 shallow water gave fewer species but far more individuals, one, 

 for example, bringing up over 17,000 specimens belonging 

 to 39 species.* We have other unpublished records of hauls in 

 Liverpool Bay where the total reached such enormous numbers 

 as from 15,000 to 50,000 specimens, not including microscopic 

 forms. In connection with these hauls a good deal of attention 

 was paid during this and succeeding years to the nature of the 

 bottom and to the classification of the deposits and of the 

 amounts of silica and calcium carbonate found in typical 

 terrigenous and neritic deposits in the various parts of the 

 Irish Sea. 



One of the events of the following year (1896) was the visit 

 made to the Port Erin Station by a large party (about a hun- 

 dred) of biologists, including geologists and anthropologists, 

 who had attended the meeting of the British Association in 

 Liverpool that summer. The visitors from other countries 

 included Professor Gilson from Louvain, Dr. Hjort from 

 Christiania, Dr. J. G. De Man from Holland, Dr. Gilchrist 

 from Cape Town, Professor Chodat from Geneva, Dr. Montelius 

 from Stockholm and others. 



* See Lancashire Sea Fisheries Memoir, No. II, " Fishes and Fisheries o£ 

 the Irish Sea," by Herdman and Dawson, 1902. 



