74 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
and identifying the specimens. He succeeded in finding 
23 marine species and 2 fresh water forms: with one ex- 
ception (Leptoplana tremellaris) all these are new records 
for the district, the Turbellaria being a group which has 
not hitherto received adequate attention in our seas. , 
Mr. Gamble informs me that the most noteworthy forms 
in his list are:—Stylostomum variabile, Cryptocelides 
lovent, Promesostoma lenticulatum and Plagiostoma sul- 
phureum ; with the exception of Stylostomuwm variabile, 
these are all new to the British Fauna. Mr. Gamble’s 
detailed report upon the Turbellaria of the L.M.B.C. 
district—which will be one of the first-fruits in the way of 
published scientific work from the new station—is now 
nearly finished. It will be laid before the Biological Society 
at the next meeting, and will be published in the forth- 
coming volume of Transactions. 
Mr. W. J. Beaumont stayed for nearly four months 
at the Station, and besides working through a series of 
type animals of various invertebrate groups, he kept a 
number of live animals under observation, and verified for 
his own satisfaction points that had already been deter- 
mined. In this way he reared and watched stage by stage 
the developing young of the small star-fish Asterina gibbosa 
which is very abundant in the “ Coralline”’ pools at Port 
Erin; and at my suggestion he kept under observation for 
along period living colonies of the Alcyonarian Sarco- 
dictyon catenata, which is dredged not far outside the break- 
water. The polypes of Sarcodictyon are very shy or 
sensitive, and have very rarely been seen in the expanded 
state. From Mr. Beaumont’s observations there can be 
no doubt that it is the bright day-light that affects them. 
He found by visiting the laboratory at night that they were 
then frequently fully expanded, and also occasionally on 
dull mornings. Mr. Beaumont also made some observa- 
