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The Society is still unfavourably handicapped by a paucity of members 
and consequent narrow income. ‘The Zoological Society of London receives — 
somewhere about £6000 per annum from members’ subscriptions. The 
Royal Zoological Society of Ireland has received this year from a similar 
source £394.” 
THe Eleventh Annual Report of the Liverpool Marine Biology Com- 
mittee and their Biological Station at Port Erin (Isle of Man), by Prof. W. 
A. Herdman, is now before us, and it is to be hoped, with the writer of the 
Report, that a larger and better equipped laboratory at Port Hrin or at 
Hilbre may arise. “Liverpool owes much to the sea; it is asking but 
little that she should take her place in supporting oceanographic research.” 
A Curator (Mr. H. C. Chadwick) has now been appointed, who will reside 
at Port Erin; much good and interesting work has been accomplished by 
visitant naturalists, for “in this age, pre-eminently that of Biology—the 
age of Darwin, Pasteur, and Lister—it is coming to be recognized equally 
over Europe and America that nowhere more than in Marine Biological 
Stations has the work of the great masters been followed up and extended, 
and that nowhere else can be found a more natural and happy union of the 
philosophy of science and of industrial applications.” The concluding 
remarks of Prof. Herdman breathe the new biological aspirations :—‘“ As 
we have recorded, in the earlier part of this Report, science students from 
our colleges are beginning to attend the Biological Station for purposes of 
work. ‘That is very satisfactory ; but we shall not be content with science 
students alone. We desire to interest and educate the general public in 
natural history, and to give all university students opportunities of studying 
living nature. Students of science study, to some slight extent at least, 
Arts subjects— Literature, History, Languages, and, it may be, Philosophy ; 
but how very few of the ordinary Arts-students have even the most elementary 
acquaintance with any experimental or natural science. Fortunately, it is 
now becoming rare to hear an educated person boasting of ignorance or 
indifference to science, but it is still very unusual to find anyone who has 
received a non-scientific education and who understands and appreciates the 
natural phenomena by which he is surrounded. The elements of nature- 
knowledge should surely always form part of a liberal education ; and a 
most instructive portion of the course on nature-knowledge would be a 
couple of weeks spent amongst the researchers at a biological station. It 
is a revelation and an inspiration to the young student, or the inexperienced, 
to spend a forenoon on the rocks exploring and collecting with specialists 
who can point out at every turn the working of cause and effect, adaptation 
to environment, and the results of Evolution. It is equally instructive and 
inspiring to have a day at the microscope with, say, our authority on 
