56 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
going to work, that the institution should be formally 
inaugurated. His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor 
was approached on the matter, and he kindly consented 
to open the biological station on Saturday, June 4th, 
while the Lord Bishop, the Manx Attorney General, and 
a number of members of the House of Keys and other 
representative men in the Island were good enough to 
promise to attend the ceremony and take part in the 
luncheon at the Bellevue Hotel which was to follow. A 
circular drawing attention to the completion of the station 
and giving an outline of the proposed arrangements at 
the opening was issued privately to naturalists and their 
friends in the neighbourhood, and as 
a response a party of over 30, con- 
sisting of members of the committee, 
a few other scientific men, and some 
of the subscribers to the funds, crossed 
over from Liverpool for the occasion. 
The Liverpool Salvage Association, 
with their unfailing kindness, had 
been good enough to promise to lend 
their useful steamer the ‘‘ Hyzena”’ 
for four or five days at that time, but 
as she was called off on duty at the 
last moment, they sent instead the 
steamer ‘‘ Mallard’? (under the com- 
mand of Captain Batchelor of the 
Salvage Association), on the Friday 
afternoon, across to Port Erin, where 
she remained till Monday. Dredging 
trips in the neighbourhood took place 
on three of the days, and on the 
Saturday evening tow-netting with 
Submarine electric 
light in tow-net. 
