MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN. 39 
living material such as would supplement their University 
course, they should if possible make a beginning with 
some biological investigation requiring original observa- 
tion and interpretation. So they were directed to observe 
and collect certain specified groups of common organisms 
at certain specified localities differing somewhat in their 
physical character—such as the two sides of Port Erin 
Bay, Port St. Mary and Fleshwick Bay—with the view 
of ascertaining how far the organisms from these localities 
differed in number, size and other particulars. Some 
good work was carried out, and a beginning was made in 
all these respects; but much still remains to be done, and 
it is hoped that the students who go to Port Hrin this next 
EKaster will continue the work of their predecessors. 
The Biological Station was visited during the year by 
Professor C. A. Kofoid, of the University of California ; 
Mr. C. Juday, of the University of Wisconsin; Dr. J. 
Knight, of the Muillport Biological Station; Professor 
W. Garstang (Leeds); Captain Creak, F.R.S., from the 
' Hydrographer’s Office; two parties of members and 
officials of the Lancashire County Council; and a party 
of members of the Natural Ilistory Society of King 
William’s College. ‘I'wo visits have been paid to the 
Aquarium by parties of pupils from the upper standards 
of the Rushen Girls’ School, and one visit by the elder 
pupils from one of the Douglas schools. 
The Committee are glad to see the institution being 
made use of in this manner, and they hope that other 
schools and educational bodies in the Island will organise 
periodic visits to the Aquarium, and will thus come to 
recognise the Biological Station as a serious educational 
factor which ought to be taken advantage of to the fullest 
extent. 
Both Professor Kofoid, from the University of 
