MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN. (i 
will in the absence of Members represent the Committee, 
will carry on observational and experimental work under 
the Director, collect and preserve specimens for the 
investigations of the specialists, and for the supply of 
laboratories and museums, and, so far as possible, help 
any of the workers, ;who require it, in collecting material 
: and in their investiga- 
tions. The Committee 
are aware that this 
appointment will be a 
considerable drain upon 
their slender resources, 
but they are convinced 
that the presence of a 
resident curator would 
be of such advantace 
Fig. 9. A good Collecting Ground at low tide. to those ws orkig sat the 
Station, that they feel it is their duty to make an effort to 
supply the necessary salary. 
STATION RECORD. 
During the half-year, from the opening of the Station in 
June to the present month, the following naturalists have 
worked at the laboratory :— 
DATE. NAME. WORK. 
1892, 
June. Mr. I. C. Thompson, F.L.S., Liverpool ... Copepoda. 
— Mr. A. O. Walker, F.L.S., Colwyn Bay .. Amphipoda. 
———) sinJdames Poole; Uiverpool --. <.. ... ;>.. (General: 
— Mr. A. Leicester, Southport .......... .... Mollusca. 
= Mr. J. Vicars, Bootle, ... ... ... General. 
— Prof. W. A. Herdman, F.R.S., U. C. iil Tunicata. 
— Mr. R. J. Harvey Gibson, F.L.S., U.C.L. ... Alge. 
— Dr. R. Hanitsch, Univ. Coli., Liverpool ... Sponges. 
— Prof. EK. F, Weiss, Owens Coll., M’chester... Alge, &c. 
