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Mr. Lomas, Liverpool. 
Dr. Paul, Liverpool. 
Mr. I. C. Thompson, F.U.8., Liverpool. 
Mr. A. O. Walker, F.L.S., Chester. 
Various other scientific men have visited the station 
without doing any special work, and on the 3rd September 
a party of biologists from the Meeting of the British 
Association at Manchester—including Professor Fritsch, 
Prague; Prof. Giard, Paris;. Prof. Julin, Liége; Prof. 
Howes, London; Prof. Parker, Cardiff, and others— 
visited the island for a short time, and inspected the 
biological station, while on a dredging expedition in the 
steamer ‘‘Gamecock.”’ 
Besides the collecting and identifying of specimens, 
work which we have all of us been engaged in more or 
less, various pieces of research have been commenced and 
are partially or wholly completed. Mr. Lomas has been 
investigating the Polyzoa, and has found some rare forms 
new to the locality. He has also been working at some 
points in the structure of Alcyonidiwm gelatinosum, a large 
fleshy Polyzoon which is very common attached to the 
rocks near low water. He has found calcareous spicules 
in the outer jelly-like part of the colony, and has also made 
observations upon some other points in the minute 
structure of this interesting animal (see his papers read 
before the Biological and Geological Societies of Liverpool). 
Mr. Leicester has been collecting and examining the 
land Mollusca of Puffin Island (see paper read before 
the Biological Society), and is also working at the marine 
Rotifera. 
Mr. Gregory, of the British Museum, besides preparing 
a report upon the geology of the island, has been investi- 
gating the Annelids (see papers read before the Biological 
Society), and will take charge of this group in future. 
