88 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
in our expeditions, but he attended as far as possible the 
meetings, and we have always had his sympathy and 
advice in our investigations. Unfortunately his long 
expected report upon our local marine fishes was never 
completed. In the first two volumes of the ‘‘ Fauna”’ we 
have two papers from his pen, one on the American Clam 
(Venus mercenaria) in Vol. I., and a report upon the 
L.M.B.C. Seals and Cetaceans in Vol. II. 
It is proposed that the vacancy caused by Mr. Moore’s 
death should be filled up by the election of His Excellency 
Spencer Walpole, LL.D., Lieutenant-Governor of the 
Isle of Man, who has kindly consented to serve on the 
Committee. 
It is an encouraging and hopeful feature of our first 
season's work at Port Erin to notice the number of new 
recruits who are joining our School of Marine Biology. 
In addition to those noted above as having done some 
special work at the biological station, Dr. G. W. Chaster, 
of Southport, is helpmg Myr. Leicester with Mollusca 
and is also working at the Foraminifera of the district, 
and Mr. P. J. F. Corbin is collecting records and speci- 
mens of the fishes and is paying special attention to their 
parasites. The Committee hope that not only may they 
continue to draw together the young biologists of Liver- 
pool and the neighbourhood, but that Manxmen interested 
in Natural History may now be induced to work as students 
at the Port Erin laboratory, and so fit themselves for in- 
vestigating seriously the abundant marine fauna and flora 
of their Island. 
All faunistic work—the distribution and relations of 
species, their variations, their habits, and ‘‘ habitats,” the 
nature of their distinguishing characteristics and the 
bearing of these upon the natural surroundings and mode 
of life—all these, always matters of great interest to those 
