60 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
History and Antiquarian Society,” proposed by the Mayor of Bootle, responded 
to by Mr. A. W. Moore, president, and Mr. P. M. C. Kermode, hon. secretary; 
‘The Liverpool Marine-Biology Committee,” proposed by the Lieutenant- 
Governor, responded to by Professor Herdman, chairman, and Mr. Thompson, 
hon. sec.; ‘‘The Manx Fisheries.” proposed by Mr. R. L. Ascroft, of the 
Lancashire Sea-fisheries, responded to by Mr. R. Garside; ‘‘The Liverpool 
Salvage Association and other Visitors,” proposed by Mr. R. J. Harvey Gibson, 
responded to by Captain Batchelor, and Professor Weiss. 
In proposing the health of the Lieutenant-Governor, Professor Herdman 
pointed out that they welcomed and honoured his Excellency, not only as the 
representative of the Queen in the island, but also asa biologist, and alluded 
to Mr. Spencer Walpole’s former connection with Huxley and Buckland, as one 
of H. M. Inspectors of Fisheries. He considered it a particularly happy con- 
junction of circumstances, that they should have happened to establish that 
marine biological station on a spot which had been rendered classic ground by 
the labours of that pioneer of British Marine Biology, Professor Edward Forbes, 
at a time when by rare good fortune the governor of the island is himself a 
biologist, (applause). It was exactly sixty years since Forbes, then a student 
at Edinburgh University, returned in summer to his home in the Isle of Man 
to commence his work on British Marine Biology (applause). He hoped the 
coincidence was a happy augury, and that as Edward Forbes had started mar- 
ine investigation on this spot just 60 years ago, so that day Spencer Walpole 
had opened an institution which would do much to advance the study of 
marine biology in the Isle of Man. 
His Excellency said :—Mr. Chairman, my lord, and gentlemen, I assure you, 
sir, I thank you very heartily for the much too flattering terms in which you 
have commended my name to this gathering, and I thank you all very heartily 
for the kindly way in which you have received it. I believe thatit is a fune- 
tion of the Governor of the Isle of Man to be, in some respects, a ‘‘ Jack of all 
trades,” and I hope sometimes that it is not consequent upon that function 
that he should be “‘ master of none.” (Laughter). You have rightly reminded 
me that I have had in former days to deal with other subjects connected with 
your own, and I still continue to take a deep interest in them; but if I were 
at all disposed to be puffed up by the kindness of your greeting to day, perhaps 
I should find the best antidote to any feelings of pride in pondering over those 
specimens which we have lately been examining in your laboratory, for, I 
suppose that in the presence of biologists I may assume that they are the 
nearest living representatives of our own immediate ancestors (laughter), and 
I sometimes think that though we hear nowadays that we are living in the 
best of all possible times, yet a good deal is to be said in favour of that simple 
and primitive form of existence which those specimens remind us is still sur- 
yiving in the sea, (Hear, hear, and laughter). Iam quite sure in those days, 
