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THE | | 
MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN, 
; BEING THE j 
TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT 
Or THE 
LIVERPOOL MARINE BIOLOGY COMMITTEE. | 
Tae past year has been a successful one as regards marine 
investigations and work in the laboratory, but a sad one 
otherwise, as we have lost two of the original members of 
our small Committee (Mr. R. D. Darbishire and Mr. 
Alfred Leicester) and several of our best supporters, 
amongst others:—-Dr. EH. Bickersteth, Mr. Charles W. 
Jones, Mr. F. H. Gossage, Mr. Robert Okell, Dr. H. C. 
Sorby and Mr. Horace Waiker. The Committee are 
anxious to get some younger men as recruits to fill the 
places thus left vacant, both as actual workers in the field 
and also as subscribers to the funds. There are now 
plenty of students—in fact, during the Master vacation 
the Biological Station has, for the last couple of years, 
been practically full 
professional researchers; but we have very few left of 
and there are plenty of young 
the earnest amateur naturalists who were our main 
support twenty years ago, and of whom Mr. Darbishire 
and Mr. Leicester, whose loss we now deplore, were 
excellent examples. Both these members of the Com- 
mittee were Conchologists and good Field-Naturalists, 
and both have written useful reports on the local Mollusca 
for our publications. Mr. Joseph Lomas, F.G.5., and 
Sir John Brunner have been recently elected to fill 
the two vacant positions on the Committee. In the 
death of Mr. Robert Okell, F.L.S., the Manx Fishery 
Board have lost their accomplished and devoted Secretary, 
