THE 



MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN 



BEING THE 



THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT 



OF THE 



LIVERPOOL MARINE BIOLOGY COMMITTEE. 

 By Professor W. A. Herdman, F.R.S. 



This is the final Report of the Liverpool Marine Biology 

 Committee ; but not, it is hoped, of the Port Erin Biological 

 Station and the work in marine biology and fisheries research 

 which has been carried on during the past thirty-five years in 

 the Liverpool district. As a consequence of the establishment 

 of a department and endowed Chair of Oceanography in the 

 University of Liverpool the Committee has decided to transfer 

 its work, responsibilities and assets to that department of the 

 University as from December 31st, 1919.* This does nob mean 

 that any change — save happily for the better — need be made 

 in the direction or the conduct of the scientific work. The 

 establishment of the Professorship of Oceanography in the 

 University is intended to consolidate and perpetuate the local 

 marine biological and other oceanographic investigations and 

 their application to sea-fisheries research. The Council of the 

 University has invited me to occupy the Chair of Oceanography 

 for the first year, from October, 1919, after which period of 

 reconstruction and arrangement I shall gladly resign the 

 Professorship into the competent hands of my colleague, 

 Dr. James Johnstone, who has for so many years been associated 

 with the scientific work of the Lancashire Sea-Fisheries. It is 

 the earnest hope of the founders of the Chair that the work 



* The minutes of the Meeting of the Committee at which this important 

 decision was arrived at will be found in the Treasurer's Report on p. 87 



