MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIK. 13 



The most notable of these occasions was when, some twelve 

 years ago, we excavated the large circle of stone cists on 

 the Meayll Hill above Port Erin, and the foundations of 

 the neighbouring hnt villages. The paper that we wrote 

 on the results of our digging has now been long out of 

 print, and the single copy at Port Erin has been fre- 

 quently consulted and taken out on loan. Consequently 

 we have now been induced, by many demands from our 

 students and from visitors at the Biological Station, to 

 reprint our former paper, with considerable additions, so 

 that it may constitute an illustrated guide to the more 

 important of the ancient monuments and other remains 

 on the island — and in this form it will be found appended 

 to the present Report. I wish to take this opportunitv of 

 stating that the greater part of the labour in connection 

 with this work has fallen upon my friend Mr. Kermode, 

 and that his accumulated mass of notes and drawings has 

 been freely drawn upon. This is only to be regarded as 

 the forerunner of a very much more complete and detailed 

 work dealing with the antiquities of his native land — and 

 especially with the early Celtic and Scandinavian carved 

 crosses* — upon which Mr. Kermode has been engaged for 

 some years. 



Xotes ox Laboratory Work. 



Mr. J. Lomas occupied his time at the Biological 

 Station in studying the distribution of Calcite and 

 Aragonite in the layers of various molluscan shells and in 

 testing methods of readily distinguishing between the two 

 minerals. 



* Mr. Kerrnode's labours in rescuing from destruction and in 

 interpreting these early crosses is well known to antiquaries and 

 others who have seen his remarkable collection of casts and drawings 

 at Ramsev. 



