MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN. 



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Mr. Arnold T. Watson, during one of his visits, pre- 

 pared and mounted for the Museum a choice exhibit of 

 Annelide tubes, upon the mode of building 1 of which (as 

 shown for example in fig. 17) he has written several 

 important papers. These specimens have been put in one 

 of the desk cases on the rail of the gallery which has been 



Fig. 17. Terebella conchilega building its tube (according to 

 the investigations of Mr. A. T. Watson). 



devoted to worm 'tubes. We propose to allot these glass- 

 topped cases to such special subjects, and to invite our 

 naturalist members of the Committee and other specialists 

 to be good enough to take charge of them during their 

 visits to Port Erin, and to arrange and label the exhibits in 

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