48 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
consider at least two important functions which it can 
perform :—(1) It can supply material and afford oppor- 
tunities for their investigations to the Committee and to 
other specialists and so be a means of adding to knowledge, 
and (2) it will enable advanced science students and young 
eraduates from our Colleges to become acquainted with 
marine animals in the living state, and in various stages 
of development, and will stimulate them to, and give them 
opportunities of commencing, research work. 
The Liverpool Marine Biology Committee was institu- 
ted in 1885 for the purpose of investigating scientifically 
the Fauna and Flora of Liverpool Bay and the neighbour- 
ing parts of the Irish Sea, an area usually referred to for 
Os 
Fig. 1. Map of the L.M.B.C. District. HH, Hilbre Id., P, Puffin Id., 
K, Port Erin. 
short as the L.M.B.C. district. The Committee established 
a small biological station on Puffin Island off the North 
coast of Anglesey, in 1887; and for the last five years 
this station has been kept up, and constant dredging and 
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