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To Our L.M.B.C. Supporters. 



In this Report to our own subscribers and workers 

 it is natural, as we stated in the last Report but desire 

 to repeat again, to look at the matter mainly from the 

 point of view of the L.M.B.C, and to feel that the change 

 of site and building is one which offers every prospect of 

 increasing and improving our scientific work. But we 

 desire also to add that our Committee is entering upon the 

 joint undertaking in the most cordial and sympathetic 

 spirit, animated by the desire and the determination to do 

 all that is possible on the part of scientific men to further 

 the aims and objects of the Hatchery Committee and the 

 Manx Sea-Fisheries. 



It may be pointed out, finally, that while this change 

 is advantageous to us in giving better accommodation and 

 larger opportunities, it also gives increased labour and 

 responsibility, and in no way relieves the L.M.B.C of 

 financial burdens. The Liverpool Committee retains its 

 identity and constitution exactly as before, and the sub- 

 scriptions and special donations from those who are kindly 

 supporting the work will be required fully as much in the 

 new building as they were in the old. The Manx Govern- 

 ment subsidy will be entirely applied to the economic work 

 in connection with the local sea-fisheries, and will not be 

 available for the purely scientific work of the Biological 

 Station. 



Port Erin and Neighbourhood. 



For the information of students and other naturalists 

 who may propose to visit the new Biological Station, we 

 think it well to repeat here a few sentences from our 

 Report of ten years ago, which may give the stranger some 

 idea of the special advantages of Port Erin for the study 

 of marine biology. 



