MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION ON PUFFIN ISLAND. 51 
from the house, the tables, chairs, planks, shelves, doors, 
shutters, windows, beds, packing cases, barrels, tins of 
paint, sixteen large sacks of coals, and innumerable smaller 
objects and packages were landed in boat loads, and had to 
be carried against a strong wind up one end of the island, 
along the top, and down the other end. 
This work kept the whole party hard at work till dark ; 
while the joiners were engaged in putting in doors and 
windows, so as to have at least one room of the house 
weather tight before night. A large fire was then ht; 
camp-beds, hammocks, and shake-downs on reversed tables, 
doors, shutters and packing cases were prepared, and the 
party encamped for the night. During the two following 
days the work went on vigorously, and when, on the 
30th May, the committee and their friends returned to 
Liverpool, the house was in a habitable condition, and the 
shelves and tables were being fixed in their places. The 
two joiners were left on the island for a couple of weeks, 
to complete the fittings, and repair the observatory, which 
was to be in future the biological laboratory (see fig. 5, 
p. 49). This room 1s lit by a continuous series of seven 
windows, forming a semi-circle round the northern, sea- 
ward end; in these there were over a hundred broken 
panes to be replaced. 
The committee engaged as keeper of the station one of 
the sailors of the “‘ Hyena,” and he was sent down to the 
island on 3rd June, in charge of a small boat, which had 
been bought for use at the island. He relieved the joimers, 
who had then finished their work, but after staying at the 
station for two weeks, he resigned his post. The com- 
mittee then chose, from a large number of candidates, the 
present energetic young keeper, Mr. Alexander Rutherford, 
who commenced work at the station on 18th June. During 
the rest of the summer, up to the end of September, a lad 
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