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Liverpool Merchants and Ship-owners, who have kindly helped us by providing 
on various occasions, steam-tugs for our dredging trips. We have more than 
once been favoured in this way by our good friend Sir James Poole, whom we 
are delighted to have again with us to-day. (Applause). 
We have also been aided most materially in our movement by the Liverpool 
Salvage Association, who have lent us in successive years at this time their 
useful and sturdy old gunboat the ‘*‘ Hyzena,” whose graceful form you have 
seen more than once in Port Erin Bay (applause). I do not know whether you 
are all aware what a celebrated craft she is. Do you know that she was built 
for the Crimea, nearly forty years ago, along with a batch—perhaps one ought 
to call them a ‘“‘litter,”—of other mammalia, the ‘‘ Porcupine,” the ‘‘Jackal,”’ 
and others ? Do you know that she was General Gordon’s own gunboat during 
the war in China, when he pursued the rebels up the shallow rivers, and ran the 
‘‘ Hyena” ashore on the mud banks in order to blow up their forts? And now, 
in her peaceful old age, she is lent by her present owners to certain enthusi- 
astic biologists, who haul in dredges and other strange instruments over her 
low rounded stern, and send ler electric lights in nets down to the bottom of 
the sea, for the purpose of capturing new and rare animals, and they succeed 
too, for is not one of their interesting new animals named Jonesiella 
Hyene, in honour of the old gunboat ? 
As a result of our successive expeditions in the Hyzena, and in other ways, 
our Committee has been enabled to achieve a very considerable measure ot 
success. We have published a number of lengthy reports upon the various 
groups of animals in our district, and, lastly, we have established and kept 
up for five years, asmall marine biology station on Puffin Island. The Puffin 
Island establishment has been of very great service to us, but during the last 
year or so we have, I think, all felt that the time had arrived when it would 
be an advantage to move our centre of operations to some less inaccessible 
spot in a new part of the area. Naturally our choice was determined by the 
rich marine fauna round this southern end of the Isle of Man, and that brings 
us down to the present time, and to the little laboratory which has been 
opened for work to-day. I must not conclude, however, without referring 
gratefully on the part of the committee to our host of the Bellevue, our 
landlord of the biological station, Mr. Clague, for his helpful assistance and 
energetic support. Remember it was only on March 6th, that Mr. Thompson 
and I came over here to inspect and to decide whether Port Erin, Port St. 
Mary, or Castletown would be best suited for our purposes. We were happily 
directed to Mr. Clague, and it is mainly due to his energetic action that the 
station has been so speedily completed (Applause). I thank you all, on behalf 
of the Committee, for your kind wishes, and for the support you are giving 
us in our work. (Applause). 
Mr. I. C. Thompson said—The biological aspect of the work of the 
