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after describing tlie three parts of the building and tl 

 uses to which they would severally be put, he referred to 

 the educational value of an aquarium, and the use thai 

 might be made of it by school teachers and others 

 interested in nature-study. He ended with an appeal to 

 the young people of the Island to take up the study of 

 some branch of Natural History either as a recreation or 

 more seriously, with the view to adding something to the 



Fig. 20. Bust of Profcs.sor Edward Forbes (1815-1854), at Port Erin. 



work commenced in that district by Edward Forbes. The 

 President of the Society (Rev. C. H. Leece) replied, thank- 

 ing the L.M.B.C, and complimenting the Manx Govern- 

 ment upon the Institution they had erected, and then 

 called upon Mr. Kermode to make his presentation. 



Mr. P. M. C. Kermode formally handed over the bust 

 of Edward Forbes to the L.M.B.C, in the course of a 

 speech in which he recounted the pioneer work which 



