( 6^ ) 
5. Doors and windows of houses, gaols an I 
hospitals in malarious districts s'.iould be screened 
with wiregauz3, aud betis should be provided with 
netting to prevent mosquitos entering and biting 
the occupants. 
I a.n painfully aware how far this address falls 
sliort of what might have been accomplished by 
a more skilful hand-writing upon the all-important 
subject of malarial prevention, but my remarks 
will not be thrown away if they induce those not 
acquainted with recent' work to take an interest in 
and tT appreciate the wonderful results in tropical 
medicine which have followed on the discovery of 
the malarial parasite. 
Let knowledge grow from more to more 
But more of reverence in us dwell ; 
That mind and soul according well, 
May make one music as before ; 
But vaster. 
(In Memokiam.) 
British Medical Journal, Sept. 20. 
THE NEW BIOLOGICAL STATION AT 
PORT ERIN. 
VISIT OF THE ISLE OF MAN 
NATURAL HISTORY ANTIQUARIAN 
SOCIETY.— DR. HERDMAN ON THE 
STUDY OF MARINE BIOLOGY.— 
PRESENTATION OF A BURST THE 
LATE PROFESSOR FORBES. 
On Sept; 27tli, the members of the Isle of 
Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society 
paid a visit to the newly erected laboratory 
and museum at Port Eiin, by invitation of the 
Liverpool Marine Biology Connnittee. The 
latter body was represented by Prof. Herd man, D 
Sc., F.R.S., etc., and Mr«i Herdman, Mr Isaac 
Thompson, F.L.S,, and Mr H C Chadwick, the 
curator. The visiting party included the Rev. 
C H Leece, President of the Isle of Man Society, 
and Mrs Leece ; Mr PMC Kermede, Hon, Sec, 
Sir James Gell, Deemster and Mrs Moore, the 
Itev. Canon Kewley, Mr F Saunderson, Mr W 
B Teare and Miss Teare ; Mr G Patterson, Mr 
P G llalfe, Mr W C Oubbon and Miss Cubbon, 
Mr Henry Kelly, Mr Egbert Rydings and others. 
The visitors spent a short time in makin!? a 
preliminary, examination of the new and com- 
modious building, and in admiring the live 
specimens of Manx fish in the tanks of the 
Aquarium. The whole party then seated them- 
selves, and the following proceedings tosk place. 
Prof. Herdman said : Ladies and gentlemen, 
on behalf of the Liverpool Marine Biological Com- 
mittee, I have the honour and pleasure to welcome 
you to their biological station. Vhis visit of the 
Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian 
Society to the Port Erin Biological Station is now 
really assuming the character of what botanists 
call a hardy annual, and I am finding it increas- 
ingly difhcult as occasions go on to find anything 
n«?w to say to you which you might care to hear. 
Bub, on the present occasion, there seem to be two 
points that one might say a few words about— two 
points obvious to us, because they are present. In 
the first place there is the new building in which 
we are assembled, and, in the second place, there 
is your Society, which has come here. In regard 
to the building, the first point I must make clear 
is that I am only speaking on behalf of what we 
pall the L M B C Although the building is, io 
great part, a Manx institution, the Isle of Man Sea 
Fish Hatchery, on the present occasion I have 
nothing to say in regard to it from that point of 
view— all that will come later, I hope, at the 
opening of the institution as a fish hatchery by 
the Committee — the Government Committee I 
think one calls it — which has charge of the fish 
hatchery. On the present occasion we welcome you 
here oa behalf of the other side of the building to a 
scientific institution —the Marine Biological 
station. The building is composed of three parts. 
There is the central part, in which we are now 
meeting, and two extensive wings. The west 
wing is the sea fi-sh hatchery, on both 
floors, and the east wing is the scientific labora- 
tory, on both floors. We shall afterwards go 
through the various rooms and see the various pur- 
poses to which the different parts are put. This 
room in which we are assembled, as is obvious, is 
the aquarium, and above is what is going to be a 
museum ; but that will come later. These three 
diiferent parts have three different purposes, and 
yet they all help one another. The sea-fish hatchery, 
as the name suggests, is for dealing with the eggs 
and the young fish in the larval state, which are of 
importance to men — ihe economical, the market- 
able fish — and we all hope the result of the oppera- 
tions in the sea-fish hatchery will be 
STOCKING OF YOUR BAYS 
round the various parts of your Island with valu- 
able flat fish— (hear, hear)-— and the supplying to 
your rooky cliffs and sea weedy regions of 
additional lobster population. I look upon the flat 
fish and the lobster as two of the most important 
things in the sea with which one can deal econo- 
mically in this particular building. It may be that 
other kinds of marine animals useful to man will 
be dealt with in the future, such as oysters, and 
possibly others ; but my own impression is that we 
shall find that our work will b^st be devoted to flat 
fish and lobsters. I am speaking for myself now 
as a scientific man, and not for the sea-fish hatchery 
at the present moment. This is the scientiilc part 
of the building, that is, of coarse, for the work 
of the naturalists of the Liverpool Committee, 
several of whom are present today, and others 
of whom who would have been glad to have 
been present if they could have managed it. We 
have had several letters regretting the inability 
of members to come over on this occasion. Why 
should naturalists want to have m nine labora- 
tories ? The genesis of modern laboratories is 
rather an interesting question in the history of 
science. Not so very long ago, in the first half 
of the last century, naturalists were what we 
generally call field naturalists. They had not, 
therefore, to do with laboratories or aquara, or 
any such accessories ; they went into the open 
and made observations with their eyes, and that 
is very good practice ; and I have very much 
admiration for the old fashioned field naturalist 
— I wish we had more of them at the present day 
(Applause.) A considerable change took place in 
the study of natural history about the sixties or 
the early seventies— in the day when Huxley was 
at the height of his fame aud the thick of his 
important work. He introduced 
THE LABORATORY METHOD; 
he went more deeply than bad been done before 
except by certain medical anatomists, into the 
structure of all animals, and saw how important 
it was that the biological student should nob 
only work ia the open, but ia the laboratory 
