88 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



tinuing and extending the work in marine biology and 

 fisheries research which the Liverpool Marine Biology 

 Committee was founded to promote, the Members of the 

 Committee now assembled are of the opinion that the time 

 has come when the intentions of the founders can best be 

 fulfilled by handing over the vested interests and the 

 property of the Committee, as stated in the appended 

 Schedule, to the University on the understanding that the 

 University, by means of the Department of Oceanography, 

 will continue to promote higher education and research in 

 Oceanography, including marine biology and its appli- 

 cations to the fishing industries, at the Port Erin Biological 

 Station and in Liverpool ; and they hereby resolve to 

 carry out this intention forthwith, the accounts to be 

 made up to September 30th ,* 1919, and the property to be 

 made over to the University on that date." 



Schedule 



The lease of the Port Erin Biological Station. 



The apparatus, books, chemicals, and other property 

 of the Liverpool Marine Biology Committee 

 at Port Erin. 



The apparatus, books, etc., of the Liverpool Marine 

 Biology Committee in the Zoological Depart- 

 ment of the University and at the publishers. 



The investments and other funds of the Committee. 



3. The hope was expressed that the University would 

 recognise the right of the scientific former Members of the 

 Liverpool Marine Biology Committee. (Mr. W. J. Halls, 

 Professor Harvey Gibson, Professor Herdman, Mr. P. M. C. 



* This date was subsequently, by agreement with the University, altered 

 to December 31st. 



