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contains a full account of the opening and the subsequent 

 proceedings. Since that time the Port Erin Station has 

 been conducted without a hitch, and with increasing 

 success, each Annual Report showing fresh work under- 

 taken and further results achieved. In March, 1893, a 

 second building was added to the Station (fig. 3) in order 

 to supply the necessary aquarium tanks for observational 

 and experimental work, and also to enable the public to 

 see something of the wonderful variety and interest of life 

 in the ocean and on the sea-shore. Then followed in a 

 year or two sea-fish hatching, which was undertaken at 

 first on a small scale in the basement, in order to show 

 what could be done in that direction with our local fish 

 and the water of the bay. Later on experimental work 

 with oysters was carried en by Professors Herdman and 

 Bo3^ce, which led to the publication of a Memoir on ihe 

 subject. Two additional volumes of the " Fauna " (IV. 

 and V.) have since been issued, and a now form of publica- 

 tion, the L.M.B.C. Memoirs, has been started, of which 

 Numbers I. to IX. have now appeared. Ten Annual 

 Reports (the sixth to the fifteenth inclusive) deal with this 

 period, and show, latterly, how inadequate the accommoda- 

 tion has been to the number of workers and the amount of 

 research carried on. 



The alliance between a Committee appointed by the 

 Manx Government and the L.M.B.C, which has resulted 

 in the provision of a much larger Biological Station on a 

 better site at the southern side of Port Erin Bay, had its 

 origin in the sea-fisheries work carried out on an 

 experimental scale in the old station for the purpose 

 of obtaining information for the Lancashire Sea- 

 Fisheries Committee. In 1898 an Industries Commis- 

 sion, presided over by the Lord Bishop, recommended thai 

 in the interests of the insular fishing industries the 



