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original work in Marino Biology was done in connection 

 with this department, many of his specimens are in our 

 collections, and this library of what he found most useful 

 in his researches, enlarged as it will be from time to time, 

 will be sure to prove useful to those workers amongst us 

 who follow in his footsteps. QV) The library of the 

 Liverpool Biological Society, which has made its home 

 in this department for the last twenty years, occupies a 

 double row of open cases placed at the back of the 

 Professor's laboratory, and opening from the departmental 

 library. It contains some important series of foreign 

 Transactions of Societies which cannot be obtained else- 

 where in Liverpool. The three collections of books are 

 thus distinct but adjoining — a most convenient arrange- 

 ment. 



"Fisheries Department. — The Sea-Fisheries Laboratory, 

 in front of the Fisheries Museum and communicating 

 with it, consists of three rooms — a larger (twenty-seven 

 feet by eighteen feet) and a smaller with ordinary 

 laboratory fittings, and an additional stone-floored room, 

 which can either be used for experimental tanks or, as 

 at present arranged, for bacteriological work in connection 

 with the sewage contamination of shell-fish. 



" Research Rooms. — The third floor in the north block 

 is occupied mainly by the L.M.13.C. and other research 

 rooms, where either members of the staff, or research 

 assistants working in the department, or any of our local 

 amateur workers, can have a quiet place in which to carry 

 on their investigations on the marine fauna. We have 

 one large (forty feet by twenty-five feet) and three small 

 rooms (each fourteen feet by eleven feet) available for 

 this purpose, and a useful gallery, about eighty feet in 

 length, in which the " Local " collection is stored, so as 

 to be convenient for consultation by specialists. This 



