58 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
permanent platform outside the laboratory there assembled a considerable 
company. In addition to his Excellency, the Bishop, Professor Herdman, 
and Mr. Thompson, the company included Sir James Poole (ex-Mayor of 
Liverpool), the Mayor of Bootle, Professor Weiss (Manchester), Professor 
Denny (Sheffield), Messrs. A. O. Walker (Colwyn Bay), P. F. Kendall (Man- 
chester), Arnold Watson, R. Ascroft, N. Caine, R. J. Harvey Gibson, 
J. Lomas, A. Leicester (Liverpool), the Attorney-General of the Island 
(Sir James Gell), Mr. James Gell (High Bailiff, Castletown),-the Rev. F. B. 
Walters (principal of King William’s College), Dr. Clague (surgeon to his 
Excelleney’s household), the Revs. E. Ferrier, M.A., A. Newton, B. Brown, 
C. H. Leece, H. T. E. Barlow (principal of the Bishop Wilson Theological 
School, Bishop’s Court), and A. Kermode (vicar of Onchan), Messrs. W. A. 
Stevenson, H.K., W. Quine, H K., W. B. Stevenson, A. W. Moore, H.K., 
P. M. C. Kermode, (secretary of the Isle of Man Natural History and Anti- 
quarian Society), F. Gaskell (Liverpool), A. R. Dwerryhouse, A. F. Dumergue, 
M. Lamart, W. S. Henderson, 8S. R. Christopher, Capt. Nowell, R. Garside, 
W. Shimmin, C. T. C. Callow, Capt. Batchelor, H. Williams, R. Craig, 
W. R. Wareing. J. Coventry, Dr. Hanitsch, Dr. Ellis, Professor Stevenson, 
G. H. Quayle, J. C. Crellin, H.K., H. Kelly, J. Clague, C. Squires, T. Clague, 
T. Costain, E. Allen, J. MeArd, R. Moore, W. Davidson, Aylmer Ogden, 
&e., &c., and a number of ladies. ; 
Professor Herdman then, on behalf of the L.M.B.C., addressed the Governor, 
and having made brief reference to the object of their biological investigations, 
asked him tv accept the volumes already published on the ‘‘ Fauna and Flora 
of Liverpool Bay,” and having also presented His Excellency and the Bishop, 
each with a specially bound copy of the collected annual reports upon the 
former station at Puffin Island, requested the Governor to declare the station 
open for scientific work. 
The Governor said :—Professor Herdman, my lord, ladies, and gentlemen, 
—I have, in the first instance, to express to you, sir, and to your Committee, 
my thanks for presenting me with these volumes, the contents of which J am + 
sure I shall read with interest and advantage ; they will remind us, at any 
rate, that you, who have come here to-day, have done much to promote that 
cause of biological science to which this station is to be devoted. In your 
station at Puffin Island, on the coast of Anglesey, as I know from reading 
your reports, you have done much to illustrate this science. You have moved 
now from the Mona of Tacitus to the Mona of Czesar—(hear, hear, and ap- 
plause,)—and having exhausted, as I ‘believe you have done, the fauna of the 
Menai Straits, you have come to this Island, where the population has for 
centuries had a deep stake in the harvest of the sea, and where I believe you 
will find that our fauna is enriched by those warm currents that find their 
way hither from the yast Atlantic Ocean. Some of you may possibly imagine ~ 
