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Commission and of an agreement between a Committee of 

 Tynwald Court and the L.M.B.C. ; and it was opened for work 

 in the summer of 1902. The Report for that year contains a 

 full description of the building and equipment and of the 

 arrangement by which the Tynwald Committee and the 

 L.M.B.C. share the expense and the control of the joint institu- 

 tion. The arrangement has worked smoothly and well for the 

 last eighteen years and will no doubt continue to do so in the 

 future under the new agreement by which the Oceanography 

 Department of the University of Liverpool assumes the place 

 and responsibilities of the Liverpool Marine Biology Committee. 



This Report contains a first account of the local fishing 

 industries of Port Erin drawn up by the Assistant Curator, 

 Mr. T. N. Cregeen. As usual, additions to the recorded Fauna, 

 made by Andrew Scott, A. D. Imms, E. T. Browne and others, 

 will be found in the Report. 



Our eighteenth year of work (1903) closed under the 

 shadow of a recent sorrow and in presence of a serious loss. 

 " Mr. Isaac C. Thompson has been the Honorary Treasurer 

 and business-head of the Committee since its foundation in 

 1885, and his sudden death in November has left a gap in our 

 life and work which no one man can fill. We shall be fortunate 

 if we obtain in his successor the devoted Treasurer without 

 requiring him to be also the accomplished Naturalist." A brief 

 memoir of Mr. Isaac Thompson's life and work was appended 

 to the Report. His son, Mr. Edwin Thompson, was fortunately 

 able to take up and complete his father's work for that year, 

 and eventually he was appointed Honorary Treasurer to the 

 Committee and has acted in that capacity to our great satis- 

 faction for the last sixteen years. 



The 17th Report (1903) contains the first record of the 

 remarkable swarm of the large Copepod Calanus fcnmarchicus 

 which appears in Port Erin Bay nearly every year in July. 

 There are also variuos additions to the fauna and other records 



