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THE sixteenth annual report of the Liverpool Marine Biology Committee,1 which records the completion and occupation of the new buildings at Port Erin, opens afresh period in the history of this Committee, which was constituted in March, 1885, at a public gathering of the local naturalists from Liverpool, Manchester, Southport, Chester and the neighbourhood, summoned by Prof. Herdman for the purpose. The declared objects were βto investigate the marine fauna and flora (and any related subject such as submarine geology and the physical condition of the water) of Liverpool Bay and the neighbouring parts of the Irish Sea, and, if practicable to establish and maintain a biological station on some convenient part of the coast.β These ends have been kept steadily in view for the last seventeen years. At an early stage of the investigations, in 1887, the Committee established a small biological station on Puffin Inland, off the north ccast of Anglesey, and during the next five years this laboratory was kept up, and dredging and other exploring expeditions were carried on from it.
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The New Biological Station at Port Erin . Nature 67, 474β475 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/067474a0
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