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THE 



MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN, 



BEING THE 



TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT 



OE THE 



LIVERPOOL MARINE BIOLOGY COMMITTEE. 



The pages of this Report will, I hope, show that the past 

 year has been unusually full of work at our Biological 

 Station, and especially at sea, where greater activity in 

 submarine exploration has been displayed during the 

 recent Easter and Summer vacations than was possible at 



Fig. 1. — S.Y. "Ladybird." — From a Photo by E. E. Unwin. 



any previous period of our work. As an example, 

 Mr. Andrew Scott, who is examining the tow-nettings, 

 writes to me that over seven hundred samples have 

 already been sent to him from the Irish Sea this season, a 

 great increase on the number in any previous year. This 

 improvement is mainly due to the advantage derived from 

 having my small steam-yacht " Ladj^bird " available for 

 use in dredging, tow-netting, and taking other observa- 

 tions in the deeper waters outside the bay. 

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