REPORT OF COUNCIL. Xl. 
industry of F. Archer in collecting, identifying and arrang- 
ing the contents of the cabinets. 
Mr. Archer was one of the original members of the 
Liverpool Marine Biology Committee, and took an active 
part in the establishment of the Biological Station at 
Puffin Island and in the subsequent dredging expeditions, 
during which his special province was to look after the 
Mollusca obtained. He was to have been one of the small 
deputation from the L.M.B.C. who went to the Isle of 
Man on March 5th, 1892, to examine and report upon a 
suitable locality in which the Biological Station (now at 
Port Erin) might be erected. We heard of his sudden 
illness at the end of February, and a few days after of his 
death. Only a couple of days before his illness he had 
been working at the Norwegian Mollusca of the “ Argo” 
collection at University College, and his unfinished lists 
were found and utilized in the Report which appeared in 
the sixth volume of our ‘‘ Transactions.” His Supple- 
mentary Report on the L.M.B.C. Mollusca, which he had 
been working at during the winter, was so nearly completed 
that 1t had been announced to be read before this Society 
at the March meeting. The lists and notes have since 
been edited by Mr. Brockton Tomlin, and the Report 
appeared in volume IIT of the “‘ Fauna of Liverpool Bay,”’ 
published in July, 1892. 
Mr. Archer was a prominent member of Council of the 
Society, and one whom we had naturally looked forward 
to having as our President at no distant date; his ready 
and helpful sympathy, his kindly criticism, and his sturdy 
common sense will for long be greatly missed at all our 
biological gatherings, at the evening meetings and on 
the collecting expeditions. 
[W.A.H.] 
