MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN. 19 



Mistress of the local Girls' school brought over 50 of her 

 elder pupils to the Station. In a short and simply-worded 

 address, the Curator explained to them the meaning of the 

 word " Biology," the objects for which the Station was 

 established, and, before conducting them round the 

 Aquarium tanks, the leading facts relating to the structure 

 of fishes. 



Faunistic work has been carried on throughout the 

 year by the staff, and by all the students who have visited 

 the Station. Mr. F. H. Graveley, of the University of 

 Manchester, made an interesting addition to the littoral 

 fauna of Port Erin Bay by the discovery of a large 

 specimen of the Nudibranch Tritonia hombergi on the 

 breakwater. He also re-discovered the habitat of the 

 Lucernarian Depastmm cyathijorme, originally discovered 

 by Mr. W. I. Beaumont in 1892, and for which we have 

 vainly sought on many occasions. It is, apparently, a 

 very small area, amidst boulders on which various Fuci 

 grow luxuriantly, immediately opposite the Station. Mr. 

 Graveley also collected a quantity of the floating spawn 

 of the Angler-fish, Lopliius piscatorius, and was able to 

 make some interesting observations with reference to the 

 stage of development of the larva at the time of liberation 

 from the jelly-like matrix in which the eggs are imbedded. 

 Amongst a number of anemones obtained from the long 

 lines of the local fishermen during the prosecution of the 

 winter cod fishery, single specimens of two species new to 

 our fauna have been detected. These are Bolocera eques 

 and Aureliana augusta. The first named differs from the 

 type in the number of tentacles forming the two inner 

 circlets, and in the absence of a broad, scarlet ring 

 around the middle of all the tentacles. Both specimens 

 are still in vigorous health in one of our table tanks. 

 Early in the forenoon of January 22nd, a somewhat rare 



