MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN. li 
due, in all probability, to the very unfavourable weather 
experienced in the Isle of Man during the latter halves 
of July and August. The number of Guides sold— 
644—is substantially larger than that of last year. <A 
new edition of the Guide will probably be required in 
the course of next year. 
‘A party of thirty members of the Royal Irish 
Society of Antiquaries, while making a tour of the 
antiquities of the Island, visited the Station on July 9th, 
under the leadership of His Honour the Deemster Callow, 
Chairman of the Isle of Man Fisheries Board. In the 
absence of Professor Herdman they were received and 
conducted over the building and its surroundings by the 
Curator. 
‘Several large parties of pupils from the local 
elementary schools, and one party from a Douglas 
school, all under the guidance of teachers, visited the 
Station during the autumn. The Curator was in 
attendance on each occasion, and spent some time in 
describing the structure and habits of the living 
occupants of the Aquarium tanks. 
“The fauna of the Aquarium tanks undergoes little 
change from year to year. Amongst the organisms which 
have made their appearance therein spontaneously during 
the past year, the Anemone Corynactis viridis and the 
tubicolous Polychaets Myaicola infundibulum and 
Potamilla reniformis may be mentioned. Numbers of the 
last-named have colonised all the table tanks occupied by 
Anemones. One end of the floor of the conger tank is at 
present inhabited by quite an extensive forest of the 
Scyphistoma stage of Aurelia aurita. 
‘““An exceptionally fine specimen of the plumose 
Anemone, Metridium dianthus, obtained from the break- 
water early in the summer and still hving, measures 
