4 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
and helpful. I think all sides concerned are satisfied, 
and that it is now recognised that we are all working 
together in the public interests and doing our best to 
advance the science of Marine Biology and a rational 
investigation of the fishing industries. 


Fig. 1. The Biological Station and Fish Hatchery at Port Erin as 
it was before the new research wing was added at the left-hand end. 
[From a photo. by Edwin Thompson. 
A new departure has been made this summer in 
holding for the first time at Port Erin, in August, a 
course of lectures, demonstrations and practical work 
dealing with Oceanography—the most recent of sciences 
and one to which a magnificent monument has just been 
erected in the Museum of Oceanography at Monaco. This 
institution, built and dedicated to scientific research by 
S. A. S. Albert I, Prince of Monaco, is devoted wholly 
to the collection and exposition of all that can be found 
out as to the oceans of the world and their inhabitants. 
The Prince of Monaco has been known to men of science 
for the last quarter century as an ardent explorer who, 
in his fine ocean yacht “Princesse Alice” (built at 
