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junior assistants, and three students. The University 

 College table has been used by one professor, two demon- 

 strators, one assistant, one former assistant, and three 

 students. 



In addition to workers and students, we had many 

 visitors, and on July 9th, the members of the Isle of Man 

 Natural History Society spent a day at the Station. A 

 public meeting of the Society and others was held in the 

 Laboratory, and your Director gave them an Address 

 upon " The Study of Marine Biology." On that occasion 

 about thirty boys with some of the masters from King 

 William's College, Castletown, also visited the Station, 

 and took a lively interest in the Aquarium tanks and the 

 specimens under microscopes. 



Later in July Mr. T. S. Lea, who was working at the 

 time at Port Erin, organised the visit of about thirty 

 Liverpool Board School boys to the Biological Station, 

 along with Mr. H. Edwards, one of their masters. They 

 were taken for a zoological ramble round by Spanish 

 Head and the Calf Sound, came back to Port Erin for tea, 

 and afterwards examined the Aquarium tanks, and were 

 taken to hunt the rock pools at low tide. Nothing is 

 better calculated than marine biology — with its endless 

 variations of form and colour, interesting habits, and 

 instructive adaptations to environment and circumstance 

 — to impress the youthful mind with a love of nature, to 

 encourage powers of observation, to excite curiosity as to 

 the causes of things, and to open up to those accustomed 

 only to a town life some glimpses of the beautiful world 

 of nature. 



It has become evident to the Committee that, in the 

 interests of the College students who are now attending 

 the Biological Station, it is necessary to obtain a more 

 highly qualified Curator than the Laboratory lad who has 



