18 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



and attended the opening- of the Port Erin Laboratory in 

 1893. 



One cannot but be struck with the fact that as the 

 older Naturalists pass away comparatively few A^oung- men 

 are rising up to take their places. Amateurs in Natural 

 History have done splendid work in England in the past 

 and have made solid contributions to Science. It will be 

 most unfortunate if even temporarily and locally a race of 

 workers so characteristic of English Zoology were allowed 

 to fail. Let us hope that new recruits will soon appear 

 amongst us ready and worthy to carry on the good work 

 of their predecessors. 



The Biological Station. 



Our last Annual Report gave a detailed account of 

 the new buildings at Port Erin, of the circumstances under 

 which they were erected and of the purposes to which they 

 will be put. That Report can still be obtained by any 

 who desire it. It is therefore unnecessary to do more now 

 than remind readers that the new Biological Statioi 

 consists of three blocks : — a central part open to the public 

 and containing the Aquarium on the ground floor and the 

 Museum above, a western wing devoted on both floors to 

 fish hatching, lobster rearing and any other allied form of 

 economic work, and an eastern part, which is the purely 

 scientific department, containing the laboratories, library, 

 &c, under the sole control of the L.M.B.C. 



With the exception of the unfinished spawning pond 

 outside the Station and the natural newness of cement in 

 the tanks, everything seems quite satisfactory in the 

 arrangements and workmanship shown everywhere in the 

 Aquarium, the Hatchery and the Laboratories. We have 

 found after a year's working no serious defect either in 

 design or in execution. There is nothing of importance 



