MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN. 39 



shows the rolling Laminaria at dead low-water at one of 

 the best collecting grounds in the neighbourhood. 



By the beginning of July the new building was suffi- 

 ciently complete to allow of the removal of the instru- 

 ments, books, re-agents, tanks and other effects from the 

 old laboratory. The gas engine and pumps were in work- 

 ing order by the beginning of June, but the large storage 

 tank was not completed and filled with sea-water by our 

 pumps until the middle of August. The large sheets of 

 plate-glass for the nine wall-tanks of the Aquarium were 

 cemented in early in August by the Curator, and these 

 show aquaria were filled with water for the first time 

 about August 20th. After that the stocking with animals 

 began, the first fish were introduced early in September, 

 and at the time when the Isle of Man Natural History 

 Society visited the Station on September 27th, the tanks 

 were occupied by about 20 species of fish, all in healthy 

 condition. The Biological Station was opened to visitors 

 for the first itime on August 4th, the Curator charging 

 one penny for admission. The first visitor came at 10.15, 

 and by 12.15 thirty-one had paid, between 2.15 and 4.45 p.m. 

 eighty more came, making a total of one hundred and 

 eleven for the day. 



Notes on Work Done in the District. 



As usual, Mr. Andrew Scott has been indefatigable 

 during the past year in adding fresh records to our know- 

 ledge of the animals of this part of the Irish Sea. His 

 list is as follows : — 



Trematoda. — Callicotylc kroyerii, Diesing, from the 

 cloaca of Raia clavata, recorded in last Annual Keport as 

 " Trematode sp. ;" Microcotyle labracis, Van Ben. and 

 Hesse, from the gills of a Bass (Lahrax lupus J caught off 

 Piel, July 20th, 1892; Diplectanum aquans, Diesing, from 



