6 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
young biologists and other teachers who desire to learn 
something of the methods of investigation and the results 
obtained, by direct contact with the material and the 
apparatus at some institution where oceanographical 
research is now being carried on. It was considerations 
such as these that caused us to arrange, this summer, 
our first Oceanography course at Port Erin, some of the 
details of which are given further on in this report. 
The usual Easter Vacation Class in Marine Biology 
as a branch of Nature Study was held with the usual 
success during the last fortnight in April, and was 
attended by about twenty senior students of Zoology from 
the University of Liverpool (see fig. 2). It will be repeated 
in April, 1911, under the charge of Mr. Douglas Laurie 
and Dr. Dakin. 
In addition, Professor Harvey Gibson proposes during 
the Easter vacation to arrange a course of lectures and 
practical work on the collection, identification and 
distribution of the Marine Alge of the neighbourhood. 
The course will occupy one week, beginning on a date to 
be announced later. 
University College, Reading, and the Bedford 
College for Women, London, have both become sub- 
scribing colleges in order to secure a work-place for their 
biological staff and students; and both colleges have 
already been represented by workers at the Station. 
Professor F. J. Cole, of University College, Reading, 
who brought three of his senior students to Port Erin for 
a fortnight in the Easter vacation, writes as follows of 
the visit :— 
‘Our stay at Port Erin was a great success, and the 
students have had a most profitable and pleasant time. 
I don’t think they will readily forget the pleasure of 
collecting and examining animals alive. I hope to 
