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A SEPARATE report on the work of the Port Erin Biological Station has been discontinued and a survey of the research done is now published in the Report for 1931 (No. 40) on the Lancashire Sea-Fisheries Laboratory at the University of Liverpool and the Annual Report of the Marine Biological Station (No. 45) at Port Erin, Isle of Man” 1932, edited by the late Prof. James Johnstone and Dr. R.J. Daniel. In this report a large amount of original work is also published. This covers a wide field and deals with the abdominal musculature of Crustacea, herring investigations, hydrography and the fauna and flora of the Isle of Man. The Port Erin Station has recently (1931–32) had a new laboratory added, fully equipped for practical teaching and with about thirty work places. New engines and pumps have been installed. The plaice hatchery and lobster culture are still continued. Besides liberating lobsterlings hatched and reared in the laboratory, a number were placed singly in glass rearing jars and fed on crab, boiled and ground to a fine meal. Nearly half of the number survived and cast their shells four or five times, making eight or nine casts between the period of hatching and the end of the first year. The newly hatched young are fed on fresh plankton; after the fourth moult (lobsterling) they are fed on crushed crab, small pieces of fish being added after the fifth month. These interesting experiments are to be continued on a larger scale next year. Dr. R. J. Daniel has completed his comparative work on the abdominal muscles of the Malacostraca and has drawn up an elaborate phylogenetic table to express the relationships that exist between the main ventral system of musculature.
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Research at the Port Erin Biological Station. Nature 131, 21 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131021a0
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