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Committee to postpone any formal inauguration of the 

 institution until some future occasion) and the desire 

 which was expressed by the Isle of Man Natural History 

 and Antiquarian Society to visit the Station, the 

 L.M.B.C. decided to hold a meeting at Port Erin on 

 September 27th, to which the local naturalists could be 

 invited for the purpose of inspecting the Biological 

 Laboratory and Aquarium. This meeting also afforded 

 an opportunity for the L.M.B.C. to receive from Mr. P. 

 M. C. Kermode, of Ramsey, the bust of the late Professor 

 Edward Forbes, the eminent Manx Naturalist, which Mr. 

 Kermode had had prepared for presentation to the new 

 Biological Station. The bust, which is an excellent life- 

 size replica of the well-known marble head of Forbes in 

 the Government Buildings at Douglas, was cast by Mr. 

 Royston, of Douglas, and has been placed on a shelf- 

 pedestal projecting from the front of the gallery in the 

 centre of the Aquarium, opposite the main entrance. 

 Figure 20 shows the appearance of the bust as seen in a 

 photograph taken by Mr. A. Petrie Watson, to whom we 

 are also indebted for the photographs from which figures 

 5, G and 7 were produced. 



The following account of the proceedings at the meet- 

 ing on September 27th is abbreviated from the reports in 

 the Manx newspapers : — The party assembled at noon at 

 the Biological Station. The Acting Governor (Sir James 

 Grell), Deemster Moore, Canon Kewley, the Rev. C. H. 

 Leece (President of the Society), and a number of other 

 officials and members were present, along with visitors 

 from Port Erin, and these were met by Professor Herdman, 

 Mr. I. C. Thompson, Mr. A. Leicester, Mr. Arnold Watson, 

 Mr. Kermode and Mr. Chadwick, on behalf of the 

 L.M.B.C, and were conducted to the Aquarium. There 

 Professor Herdman gave an address of welcome, in which, 



