MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN. 53 



" The most important event that falls to be recorded this year 

 is the arrangement concluded with the Government of the 

 Isle of Man, as a result of which we shall in future occupy 

 increased laboratory accommodation, and be responsible 

 conjointly with a committee of the Tynwald Court for the 

 conduct of a large Aquarium and Fish Hatchery. A detailed 

 statement as to how this change has been brought about, as to 

 the position of our Committee in relation to the Manx Govern- 

 ment, and as to the probable effect upon our work will be given 

 below. But it must be obvious to all that as this implies a 

 removal from our present Biological Station to larger and more 

 convenient buildings, on a better site at the other side of the 

 bay, it is clearly the most important event in the history of 

 the L.M.B.C. since we first established our laboratory at 

 Port Erin. 1 ' 



Mr. Chadwick in this report added several species to our 

 record, Mr. Andrew Scott gave a useful list of new fish-parasites 

 and Crustacea, and Mr. A. D. Imms studied several kinds of shore 

 insects in preparation for his L.M.B.C. Memoir on " Anurida " 

 (published in 1906). The only other event of this year that 

 need be recalled is that we prepared and published as an 

 Appendix to the Report, and also separately, an illustrated 

 Guide to the Aquarium, " being a short account of some of 

 the common marine animals of the neighbourhood." This 

 Guide, and the revised and enlarged editions which followed 

 it, has met with much success, and many thousands of copies 

 have been sold at 3d. each to visitors. The last 1,666 copies of 

 the third edition have been sold during the present summer, 

 and a new edition is now in preparation. 



The 16th Report is the first of a new series recording the 

 work done at the much larger permanent Biological Station 

 on the south shore of Port Erin Bay. This building, combining 

 Laboratory, Aquarium and Fish Hatchery, was erected by the 

 Manx Government in pursuance of a report of the Industries 



