MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN. 47 
APPENDIX B. 
HON. TREASURER’S STATEMENT. 
The Annual Subscription List and Balance Sheet are 
here shown, and it is very gratifying to note that two more 
Colleges have become subscribers to work-tables for the 
use of students at Port Erin, and the Treasurer hopes that, 
now the Biological Station has been enlarged, other 
Universities and Colleges will likewise join. 
The Balance Sheet shows a small balance in hand, but 
there is still considerable need for more _ financial 
support. As the work done at Port Erin increases so 
rapidly the expenses naturally become heavier, and the 
Treasurer earnestly hopes that more subscribers will be 
forthcoming in order that the useful work may be carried 
on without being handicapped through lack of funds. 
The important financial item of the year has been the 
new addition to the buildings at Port Erin, the expenses 
in connection with which are being kept as a separate 
account. The circumstances are as follows :— 
In May the Treasurer received the following letter 
from Professor Herdman, which was printed and sent 
with a covering note from the Treasurer to a few 
members of the Committee and others who have in the 
past taken an interest in the work carried on at Port 
Erin, or might be expected to do so in the future :— 
‘¢ UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL, 
May 5th, 1910. 
My Dear TREASURER, 
This is a letter for you to show to anyone you like, giving 
the facts in regard to a very desirable and much needed 
possible extension of the Port Erin Biological Station. 
The present building, with its Fish Hatchery, Aquarium 
and Scientific Laboratory, was erected at a cost of £2,000 by 
the Manx Government, in 1901. 
