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The FOUNDATION and FIRST SEASON’S WORK 
of the LIVERPOOL MARINE BIOLOGICAL 
STATION on PUFFIN ISLAND. 
By W. A. Herpman, D.S8c., F.LS., F.R.S.E., 
DERBY PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LIVERPOOL; CHAIRMAN 
OF THE LIVERPOOL MARINE BIOLOGY COMMITTEE, AND DIRECTOR OF THE 
PUFFIN ISLAND STATION, 
[ Read, in part, before the Liverpool Biological Society, 12th November, 1887.] 
A FULL and detailed account of the constitution and objects 
of the Liverpool Marine Biology Committee having been 
published last year, as an Introduction to the first volume 
of Reports upon our local Fauna and Flora,* it is unneces- 
sary now to do more than state that this committee 
was appointed in the spring of 1885, for the purpose of 
investigating thoroughly the animals and plants inhabiting 
Liverpool Bay. 
During the summer of 1885 various expeditions were 
organised by the committee for the purpose of collecting 
specimens and making observations. Mr. George Holt, 
Sir James Poole, and the Liverpool Salvage Association 
gave most welcome aid by placing steamboats at the 
service of the committee for one or more days. By this 
means dredging and trawling expeditions to the neighbour- 
hood of Hilbre Island, to Point of Ayr, to Llandudno, and 
to the neighbouring coasts of North Wales and Anglesey 
were successfully carried out; while, when steamers were 
not available, shore expeditions were made to examine 
Hilbre Island and other points in the estuaries of the 
Mersey and Dee at low tides. 
* First Report on the Fauna of Liverpool Bay and the Neighbouring Seas, 
Longmans, 1886, 
