20 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Government should promote practical fisheries investi- 

 gations, and for that purpose establish a closer 

 connection with the authorities of the Port Erin Biological 

 Station. A Committee of the Tynwald Court, appointed 

 on 21st May, 1901, met at Port Erin under the Chairman- 

 ship of His Honour the Deemster Kneen, on June 16th, 

 took evidence, examined sites, conferred with representa- 

 tives of the L.M.B.C.^ and reported in favour of erecting a 

 combined Biological Station, Aquarium, and Fish 

 Hatchery upon a site near the base of the breakwater, and 

 recommended to the Tynwald Court on July 12th that a 

 grant of £2,000 be made for the erection of the building, 

 and that an annual sum of £200 be voted towards main- 

 tenance. They also recommended that a Committee be 

 appointed to make arrangements with the Harbour Board 

 as to the site for the necessary buildings and tanks, and 

 also with the Liverpool Marine Biology Committee as to 

 the management of the Hatchery and the use and control 

 of the Laboratory and Aquarium. The Tynwald Court 

 adopted the report, granted the necessary sums, and 

 appointed a Hatchery Committee to take charge of the 

 Manx portion of the institution. 



The further business details of the arrangement 

 concluded between the Hatchery Committee and ' the 

 L.M.B.C. were given in our last Annual Report 

 (p. 25), and need not be repeated. It may suffice 

 to say that the two Committees have worked 

 most harmoniously together, and will no doubt continue 

 to co-operate cordially and usefull}'. Of the three depart- 

 ments in the institution, the Laboratory block will be 

 wholly under the control of the L.M.B.C, the Hatchery 

 block will belong solely to the Manx Committee, and the 

 Aquarium in the centre will be managed as a joint concern 

 in the interests of both the scientific and economic work. 



