110 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
of students. We do, in a sense, through the aquarium 
convey information to all visitors who enter the building, 
and through our Reports to all who read them. But 
much more use might be made of our institution, even on 
its present small scale, and there is scarcely a limit to the 
uses to which it might be put if re-built on a larger scale | 
and adequately equipped. When one thinks of the hun- | 
dreds of school teachers and students of arts and theology 
who, in America, flock to the Marine Biological Stations 
during the summer vacation, in order that they may have 
the opportunity of becoming acquainted with biological 
thoughts and methods, and of studying under expert 
guidance the facts and ways of living Nature, one cannot 
but be struck by the contrast here; and one is led to 
wonder how long it will be before the elements of nature- 
knowledge are recognised as an essential part of a liberal 
education. : 
It is evident to some of us, from experience of and . 
conversations with school teachers, that the demand for 
vacation work at Biological Stations is with us—it is the 
means of satisfying the demand that is absent. The 
immense success of the movement in America (e.g., at the | 
Woods Holl Biological Station, Massachusetts) not only 
justifies but requires us to urge its adoption here. If any 
Technical Instruction Committee, or other educational 
body (or individual), will build me a new biological station 
from my plans, within reasonable distance of Liverpool, 
and containing a laboratory in which, say 30, students can 
carry on work, I will undertake to admit school teachers 
free, and teach them in a free vacation class, and I feel 
sure, from some experience I have had, that the room 
would always be full, and that the students would find 
they were spending not merely an instructive, but also a 
most enjoyable vacation—learning new things every day, 
