MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION ON PUFFIN ISLAND. 48 
species,t of which at least 285 had not been found before 
in this neighbourhood. Sixteen of these species have not 
been previously discovered in British seas, and at least 
seven species and three varieties are new to science. 
Field work was re-commenced in the spring of 1886. 
Dredging and other collecting expeditions were organized 
and new parts of the district explored. The steamer 
‘‘ Hyena’ was a second time lent by the Salvage Associa- 
tion for three or four days, and a series of dredgings along 
the north and west coasts of Anglesey was successfully 
carried out. The committee was aided financially by a 
small grant of £25 from the Government Grant Committee 
of the Royal Society.t This along with other funds 
received was employed in hiring steamers and other boats 
for expeditions, and in paying fishermen and others for 
assistance in collecting specimens. 
During this second year’s work it became obvious to the 
committee that in order to advance further in their work, 
so as to be able to make more minute explorations, and to 
carry on detailed investigations into the habits and life- 
histories of the animals, it would be necessary to establish 
a small sea-side laboratory or marine biological station at 
some suitable spot in the district. Such an institution 
would require to have a work-room where, say, four to six 
investigators could have light and room to carry on their 
researches, and some tanks or aquaria in which animals 
could be kept under observation in a living condition. If 
* For the use of this woodcut, and of figures 2 and 6, I am indebted to the 
courtesy of Messrs. Cassell and Co. The original drawings were made in 
illustration of an article ‘‘On the Cruise of the Spindrift,” by Mr. R. McMillan 
of Liverpool, which appeared in Cassell’s Family Magazine for May, 1886, 
+ Since increased to over a thousand species, 
t A second grant of the same amount has been received this year (1887), 
and employed in a similar manner, 
