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Localities dredged and trawled : — Through the Calf 

 Sound, and off its eastern and western ends, at depths of 

 16 to 20 fathoms. 



III. March 14, 1896. — Sea-Fisheries steamer ' John 

 Fell.' Off Port Erin. 



IV. April 5, 1896. — Hired steamer ' Eose Ann.' 

 Localities trawled : — Out in the deep channel, 12 miles 

 S.W. of Calf ; bottom reamy mud, with many spawning 

 fish ; depths 40 to 50 fathoms. 



V. April 21-24, 1896. — Sea-Fisheries steamer ' John 

 Fell.' Localities trawled : — Deep channel, 12 miles S.W. 

 of Calf, and further north to opposite Port Erin ; also 

 west of Dalby, 8 miles off ; reamy bottom ; depths 20 

 to 40 fathoms. 



VI. May 29 and 30, 1896.— Sea-Fisheries steamer 

 ' John Fell.' Localities : — Estuary of the Wyre and 

 around Piel Island, in Barrow Channel ; shallow water. 



VII. August 31, 1896,— Mr. Woodall's S.Y. ' Vallota.' 

 Localities dredged and trawled : — Between Port Erin and 

 Calf Island ; depth 17 to 22 fathoms. 



VIII. September 19, 1896. — Sea-Fisheries steamer 

 ' John Fell.' Localities : — Liverpool Bay, Hilbre Swash 

 and the Kock Channel ; 4 to 10 fathoms. 



Two of these expeditions — those at Easter in the ' Kose 

 Ann,' and at the end of April in the ' John Fell ' — were 

 particularly successful, and resulted in the capture of a 

 number of new and interesting species. Amongst these 

 is a large green Gephyrean worm, which is either Thalas- 

 semia gigas, M. Miiller, or a new species of Thalassemia 

 with a remarkable pigment (see p. 25) ; and a Cumacean, 

 for which a new genus is necessary. 



Additions have been made during the year to most of 

 the groups of invertebrate animals, and these will be 

 found noted in the lists below ; in addition Mr. A. O.Walker 





