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collected about five hundred species and more than half of 
those were entirely new to the locality. A considerable 
number of them were either very rare or even new to the 
British seas, and two or three were probably altogether 
new to science. Last year, the Committee did not need 
to hire any vessel, for steamers were lent to them by 
shipowners and companies in Liverpool. There was one 
place in the neighbourhood of Liverpool which was visited 
very often by biologists, and that was Hilbre Island, at 
the mouth of the Dee. That was the one spot on this 
part of the coast which had a rich fauna, and on it was to 
be found a very good collection of certain groups of marine 
invertebrates. Some of the reports of the eighteen gentle- 
men who had taken the specimens in hand that were 
collected last year were now finished, and the whole were 
expected to be completed before the end of the year. It 
was estimated that the results of the first summer’s work, 
treated in a purely scientific way, would form a report 
occupying between 250 and 300 pages, which would require 
about 14 plates and a map by the way of illustration. That 
volume would, he hoped, be published before next summer’s 
work commenced, and would bring all previous work on the 
same subject up to date. Professor Herdman then referred 
to some of the more interesting species discovered last 
summer. Among these he mentioned some of the medusoid 
gonophores, and stated that the Committee had found a 
species which had not been recorded by Forbes. The 
zoophytes formed a very large collection indeed, and about 
half of the species met with were new to the locality. 
Their greatest find was Garveia nutans^ a beautiful species 
of zoophyte which had been found only twice before. The 
Committee collected altogether 18 species of sea anemones 
and a great many varieties, which included several of the 
forms rare in Britain. They also obtained a large collection 
of polyzoa, and some of the species they found had not been 
