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[WORK FROM THE PORT ERIN BIOLOGICAL STATION. | 
REPORT on the TURBELLARIA of the L.M.B.C. 
DISTRICT. 
ley ie Mio Guiirins Iss... 
BERKELEY FELLOW OF THE OWENS COLLEGE, MANCHESTER. 
With Plates XII to XIV. 
[Read January 13th, 1893.] 
THE following Report is a summary of observations made 
during July and part of October, 1892, at the Port Hrin 
Biological Station belonging to the Liverpool Marine 
Biology Committee. Owing to the limited time at my 
disposal much yet remains to be done before an accurate 
idea of the Turbellaria of the District can be formed. My 
researches at Port Erin and at the Marine Biological 
Association’s Laboratory at Plymouth, seem to point to 
the conclusion that we are only beginning to ascertain 
the richness of this portion of the British Fauna. Asa 
general result 28 species representing 23 genera have 
been found at Port Erin. Five of these are new to Britain. 
The Turbellaria (ike the Protozoa, Nematodes and 
some smaller groups) have, for various reasons been little 
studied in this country. It is chiefly to the following 
workers that the knowledge we possess of the marine 
species, 1s due. 
Sir John Dalyell recorded a few species from the Firth 
of Forth; Dr. Johnson worked Berwick Bay; Mr. Wm. 
Thompson of Dublin worked the east coast of Ireland. 
In 1861 Prof. Ed. Claparéde paid a visit to Skye, 
where he found many new forms. Prof. M‘Intosh has 
noticed some species in his “‘ Marie Invertebrates and 
Fishes of St. Andrews.” ‘These records, however, do not 
by any means give us a complete account of the Turbel- 
