MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN. 7 



These successive losses of our old tried supporters and 

 fellow-workers are very sad, and it becomes increasingly 

 difficult to find similar men, of scientific tastes, in the 

 younger generation prepared to fill the vacant places and 

 devote some time and energy to advancing knowledge of 

 the Natural History of our local seas. 



Last year's vacancies on the Committee were filled, 

 at the Meeting held at Easter, in the Biological Station, 

 by the election of Sir Charles Petrie and Mr. W. J. Halls. 

 Both gentlemen have consented to serve on the Committee. 

 Mr. Halls has been with us as a worker for many years, 

 and Sir Charles Petrie has shown his interest in the past 

 in all Marine Biological investigations. 



The Committee decided at the Easter Meeting not to 

 fill up, for the present, the post of Hon. Secretary and 

 Treasurer ; but requested Mr. Edwin Thompson to kindly 

 continue in office for a time as Acting Treasurer. Mr. 

 Thompson's Report and Balance Sheet will be found 

 appended. The Committee would gladly welcome more 

 fellow-workers — in the form either of Naturalists who will 

 come to the Biological Station and take part in the investi- 

 gations, or of sympathisers who will help to the extent of 

 an Annual Subscription to the funds. 



The Biological Station. 



The improvements contemplated in last year's Report 

 have now been effected. The tanks on the central tables in 

 the Aquarium (see fig. 3) have been connected up to the 

 system of circulating sea-water. The Museum in the 

 Grallery has been improved, and a useful verandah has 

 been added at the back of the institution, to be used in 

 part by students in the Laboratory for the sorting out of 

 collected material before being taken to the work rooms, 

 and partly as an annexe to the Eish Hatchery, in which 



