MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT TORT ERIN. 5l 



Forbes ; liad done in connection with the Natural History 

 oi the Isle of Man over sevent}^ years before. Mr. Isaac 

 Thompson, as Hon. Treasurer of the L.M.B.C, received 

 the gift, thanked Mr. Kermode, and discussing the require- 

 ments of the new Station, pointed out the need of scientific 

 books for the library. 



The Acting Governor (Sir James Gell), in thanking 

 Professor Herdman for his address, expressed his approval 

 of the institution, his gratification at the action of the 

 Manx Government in supporting it, and his recognition 

 of its educational value, which he hoped would be taken 

 advantage of by the young people of the Island, and 

 appreciated by the general public. 



At the conclusion of the formal proceedings the 

 visitors were conducted round the building by the 

 members of the L.M.B.C, who described the specimens in 

 the tanks, in the Museum and under the microscopes in the 

 laboratory. After lunch at the Belle Yue Hotel, the party 

 visited the Neolithic settlement and circle of stone cists 

 on the Meayll hill, and then returned to the Biological 

 Station for afternoon tea on the invitation of Mrs. Herdman. 



It is gratifying to find that since that meeting 

 several enquiries have been made as to possible 

 arrangements for utilising the Aquarium for nature-study 

 by teachers, and the Committee are now arranging, in 

 conjunction with the Liverpool Teachers' Nature-Study 

 Club, to hold a class in the laboratory next Easter, 

 especially for teachers, the details of which will be given 

 in Appendix C at the end of this Report. Such classes 

 have been proposed several times in the past, when 

 difficulties of accommodation and of ways and means, now 

 happily overcome, always stood in the way ; but we have 

 on several occasions had visits from teachers with their 

 pupils, and fig. 21 recalls one of those occasions on which 



