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shore nearer the usual collecting grounds than Liverpool 

 would he a material assistance in the work. Consequently 

 in 1887 Ihe Committee established a small Biological 

 Station on Puffin Island, off the north coast of Anglesey, 

 and during the next five years this laboratory was kept up, 

 and constant dredging and other exploring expeditions 

 were carried on, as the result of which the three first 

 illustrated volumes of Reports (" Fauna of Liverpool Bay," 

 Vols. I. to III.) were published. The Puffin Island Station 

 was very useful for a time, as our earlier annual reports 

 abundantly show, and besides serving to educate some of 



Fig. 1. Collecting ground at Puffin Island. 



our senior students and stimulate the local naturalists, it 

 supplied material to a considerable number of specialists, 

 and gave scientific results which were published in the 

 volumes on the Fauna. It came, however, in time to be 

 felt by the Committee thai a station in a spot more readily 

 accessible from Liverpool, and not so wholly isolated, 

 would enable the specialists to do more work, and be of 

 more use to students and investigators generally. It was 

 also becoming evident dial after five years' work on the 

 Bhores of the small island (fig. J), the greater number of 



