MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN. 23 
Professor Herdman’s yacht, which is provided with the 
necessary oceanographic apparatus. Applications or 
enquiries should be sent, etc.”’ 
The course was eventually attended by eight persons, 
of whom one-half may be regarded as senior students or 
young graduates, and the other half as being in the 
category of holding scientific posts. 


Fic. 4. The first Oceanography Class at Port Erin, August, 1910. 
(From a photo. by H. E. Roaf. 
The work started on most days with a lecture at ten 
o'clock, followed by laboratory work. In the afternoon 
there was occasionally a second lecture, but more usually 
a collecting expedition on the shore or at sea .was 
arranged, or demonstrations of the planktonic and the 
hydrographic apparatus, and on the methods of micro- 
