10 TEANSACTIONS LIVEEPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



in undertaking to report upon the Marine Biology and 

 Geology of the district, and in asking for subscriptions to 

 defray the necessary expenses of the work, they were in- 

 curring responsibilities both to the scientific world and to 

 the public of Liverpool. They have been responsible to 

 the latter for the wise administration of such funds as are 

 entrusted to them, and to the former both for the 

 energetic and careful prosecution of the scientific work 

 and also for the due recognition and encouragement of all 

 those workers, amateur as well as professional, whose 

 contributions to knowledge come within the scope of their 

 investigation. This sense of responsibility is only in- 

 creased and justified by this trust which has been created 

 for the benefit of the Marine Biological work ; and the 

 British Association Local Committee and the Subscribers 

 to the fund may rest assured that the L.M.B.C. Officials 

 will use their utmost endeavour to so direct the investiga- 

 tions that they may be a credit to Liverpool* and 

 " permanently conducive to the great aim of the British 

 Association, the Advancement of Science." 



It is the view of the Trustees, and also the desire of the 

 L.M.B.C, that the annual interest should not be merely 

 added to the income of the Committee, but should so far 

 as possible be expended either upon the publication of 

 results or upon some definite line of investigation, such as 

 the hire of steamers for dredging explorations, or series 

 of experiments in the Biological Station, so that the name 

 of the fund may from time to time be publicly associated 

 with some tangible result in such a way as to keep alive 

 in Liverpool the memory of the British Association 

 meeting of 1896. 



It ought to be borne in mind by our own subscribers, 

 by those of the Liverpool public who have in the past so 

 generously helped the L.M.B.C. work, that if this British 



