MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN. 



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the plants and animals had been collected and examined, 

 and that a change to a new locality with a richer fauna 

 and a more extended and varied line of coast would yield 

 an increase of material for faunistic work. 



Consequently in 1892, after a preliminary investi- 

 gation of the south end of the Isle of Man, and 

 encouraged by a most cordial invitation from the 

 Natural History and Antiquarian Society of the 



Fig. 2. The old Biological Station at Port Erin — end view of 

 Laboratory. 



Island, the centre of the L.M.B.C field work was trans- 

 ferred from Anglesey to the Isle of Man — " from the Mona 

 of Tacitus to the Mona of Caesar." Here a small three- 

 roomed biological station (fig. 2) was built on the northern 

 side of Port Erin Bay, and was formally opened for work 

 on June 4th by Sir Spencer Walpole, the Governor of the 

 Island. Our Sixth Annual Report (December, 1892) 



