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L.M.B.C, and we feel that the change is one which offers 

 every prospect of increasing and improving our scientific 

 work. But we desire also to add that our Committee is 

 entering upon the joint undertaking in the most cordial 

 and sympathetic spirit, animated by the desire and the 

 determination to do all that is possible on the part of 

 scientific men to further the aims and objects of the 

 Hatchery Committee and the Manx Sea-Fisheries. 



It may be pointed out, finally, that while this change 

 is advantageous to us in giving better accommodation and 

 larger opportunities, it also gives increased labour and 

 responsibility, and in no way relieves the L.M.B.C. of 

 financial burdens. 



The Liverpool Committee retains its identity and 

 constitution exactly as before, and the subscriptions and 

 special donations from those who are kindly supporting 

 the work will be required fully as much in the new 

 building as they were in the old. The Manx Government 

 subsidy will be entirely applied to their own economic 

 work in connection with sea-fisheries, and will not be 

 available for the purely scientific work of the Biological 

 Station. 



L.M.B.C. Memoirs and other Publications. 



Since last Report three additional L.M.B.C. Memoirs 

 have been issued. These are No. V., Alcyonium, by 

 Professor Hickson, No. VI., on the Fish Parasites Lern^ea 

 and Lepeophtheirus, by Mr. Andrew Scott, and No. VII., 

 Lineus, by Mr. R. C. Punnett. 



The eighth Memoir, the Plaice, by Mr. Cole and Mr. 

 Johnstone, is now in type and will be issued before the 

 end of 1901, the ninth, on the red sea-weed Chondrus, by 

 Dr. 0. V. Darbishire, will follow soon, while others, such 

 as the Oyster, Sagitta, Cythere, Patella and Antedon, 



