TENTH ANNUAL EEPOKT of the LIVEEPOOL 



MAKINE BIOLOGY COMMITTEE and their 



BIOLOGICAL STATION at POET EEIN. 



By W. A. Hekdman, D.Sc, F.B.S., 



DERBY PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY IN "UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LIVERPOOL ; 



CHAIRMAN OF THE LIVERPOOL MARINE BIOLOGY COMMITTEE, 



AND DIRECTOR OF THE PORT ERIN STATION. 



[Read December 11th, 1896.] 



Among the events of the past year which should be 

 specially mentioned are 1°, the visit of the British Assoc- 

 iation, which involved a dredging expedition in Liverpool 

 Bay, and an excursion of several days duration to Port 

 Erin at the conclusion of the Liverpool meeting ; and 

 2°, the compilation of an index list of all the species 

 of marine animals and plants recorded by the L.M.B.C. 

 during the first ten years of their work. 



The Station at Port Erin has been made use of by 

 various members of the Committee and other naturalists 

 for varying periods during the year ; the tanks in the 

 aquarium have also enabled some experiments in sea-fish 

 hatching to be carried out for the Lancashire Sea- 

 Eisheries Committee ; and several students from both 

 Owens College, Manchester, and University College, 

 Liverpool, have occupied work-tables in the laboratory 

 during the Easter, Whitsuntide, and Summer vacations. 



Station Be coed. 



The following naturalists have worked at the Port 

 Erin Laboratory during the past year : — 



DATE. NAME. WORK. 



February. Mr. I. C. Thompson, Liverpool Copepoda. 



— Prof. W. A. Herdman, Liverpool ... Collecting. 



March. Mr. R. A. Dawson, Preston ) 



Mr. Andrew Scott, Liverpool j Sea-Fisheries. 



