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subscribers in order that a work place may be at the 
disposal of their staff for a certain period annually; a 
subscription of two guineas will secure a work place for 
six weeks in the year, a subscription of five guineas for 
four months, and a subscription of £10 for the whole year. 
VI.—Each worker* is entitled to a work place opposite 
a window in the Laboratory, and may make use of the 
microscopes, reagents, and other apparatus, and of the 
boats, dredges, tow-nets, &c., so far as 1s compatible with 
the claims of other workers, and with the routine work of 
the Station. 
ViIl.—Each worker will be allowed to use one pint of 
methylated spirit per week free. Any further amount 
required must be paid for. All dishes, jars, bottles, tubes, 
and other glass may be used freely, but must not be 
taken away from the Laboratory. Workers desirous of 
making, preserving, or taking away collections of marine 
animals and plants, can make special arrangements 
with the Director or Treasurer in regard to bottles and 
preservatives. Although workers in the Station are free 
to make their own collections at Port Erin, it must be 
clearly understood that (as in other Biological Stations) 
no specimens must be taken for such purposes from the 
Laboratory stock, nor from the Aquarium tanks, nor from 
the steam-boat dredging expeditions, as these specimens 
are the property of the Committee. The specimens in 
the Laboratory stock are preserved for sale, the animals 
in the tanks are for the instruction of visitors to the 
Aquarium, and as all the expenses of steam-boat dredging 
expeditions are defrayed by the Committee, the specimens 
obtained on these occasions must be retained by the 
* Workers at the Station can always find comfortable and convenient 
quarters at the closely adjacent Bellevue Hotel ; but lodgings can readily be 
had by those who prefer them. 
