MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN. 49) 
other exploring expeditions have been carried on, as the 
result of which three illustrated volumes of reports have 
already been published (‘‘ Fauna of Liverpool Bay,” vols. 
I—III.). The Puffin Island establishment has been very 
useful to the Committee, and well worth the small annual 
expenditure required for its modest outfit. It has been 
used by some students of the local Colleges who wished 
to gain a general knowledge of the common marine 
animals and plants in a living state, and by a considerable 
number of specialists who went there to make observa- 
tions, or who had the material for their investigations 
collected there and sent to them. 
It has been felt however by the Committee for some 
time that a station which was more readily accessible from 
Liverpool, and with hotel or lodging accommodation on the 
spot, would enable their specialists to do more work, and 
be of more use to students and investigators generally. 
Also it was becoming evident that after five years work 
on the shores of the small island the greater number of 
Fig. 2. Collecting ground at Puffin Island. 
the plants and animals had been collected and examined, 
and that a change to a new locality with a rich fauna and 
a more extended and varied line of coast would yield 
