MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN. 85 
Trish Sea. ‘‘ This committee consists of Professor Haddon, 
Mr. W. H. Hoyle, Mr. Geo. Brook, Mr. A. O. Walker, Mr. 
I. C. Thompson (Secretary) and Professor Herdman 
(Chairman), and the grant will be expended in providing 
a series of short dredging expeditions to the more 
unknown parts of the area. The first of these British 
Association Committee expeditions was organized at the 
end of September when the steam trawler ‘‘ Lady Loch” 
of Douglas was hired for September 24th. The wind was 
so strong and the sea so heavy that it was quite impossible 
to do any work off the southern and western sides of the 
island, so we steamed up the eastern side and spent the 
day in dredging in the neighbourhood of Laxey at the fol- 
lowing localities : 
Fig. 16. Emptying the, lredge on deck. 
1. Off Clay Head, 20 fms., several hauls; varied bottom. 
Polymastia robusta, Suberites domuncula, Amphilectus 
imerustans, Spongelia fragilis (large specimens), and a 
