MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN. 



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upon the educational aspect. " Tlie possibilities of an 

 Aquarium as an institution for the instruction of the 

 people have never been properly understood." " What we 

 want is to make it a part of the 'City's educational system." 

 " It should be a place for study and investigation." " Fish 

 culture is fast becoming a profession." " We shall 



Fig. 22. Echinodermata. 



1 Antenna gibbosa, 2 Asterias rubens. 3 Ophiothrix/ragilis, 

 i Cucumaria planci. 5 Echinus csculentus. 



establish a fish hatchery in the building." " Our deter- 

 mination is to increase not only the attractiveness, but the 

 educational value of the Aquarium to the masses of the 

 people who visit it," are some of the sentences that occur, 

 and which sound like a welcome echo from across the 

 Atlantic of the views which have been expressed at Port 

 Erin by the Liverpool Marine Biology Committee. 



