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Title: Report upon the fauna of Liverpool Bay and the neighboring seas
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Liverpool Marine Biology Committee Herdman, W. A. (William Abbott), Sir, 1858-1924
Subjects: Marine animals
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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t there formerly, and I fearsome of the rarer Nudibranchs, which the late Mr. Pricediscovered, and sent to Alder and Hancock for incor-poration in their well-known monograph, have nowdisappeared from the neighbourhood. The animals which were collected during 1885 w^erepreserved and stored in the Zoological Laboratory ofUniversity College, Liverpool, until the end of the summer.They were then roughly arranged into groups, such assponges, zoophytes, sea-anemones, worms, molluscs, &c.,and sent to those members of the committee and othernatm^alists who had undertaken to work up and reportupon the specimens. This laboratory work went onduring the winter 1885-86, and in the spring of 1886 thecommittee published their first volume of Eeports,*containing twenty-nine articles, written by twenty-oneauthors, and illustrated by ten plates and two maps of thedistrict. These reports record the occurrence of 913 * Fauna of Liverpool Bay, Report I. Longmans, 1386. 42 LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
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oo g5b r3 to MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION ON PUFFIN ISLAND. 43 species,! of which at least 235 had not been found beforein this neighbourhood. Sixteen of these species have notbeen previously discovered in British seas, and at leastseven species and three varieties are new to science. Field work was re-commenced in the spring of 1886.Dredging and other collecting expeditions were organizedand new parts of the district explored. The steamer Hyaena was a second time lent by the Salvage Associa-tion for three or four days, and a series of dredgings alongthe north and west coasts of Anglesey was successfullycarried out. The committee was aided financially by asmall grant of £25 from the Government Grant Committeeof the Royal Society, t This along with other fundsreceived was employed in hiring steamers and other boatsfor expeditions, and in paying fishermen and others forassistance in collecting specimens. During this second years work it became ob\dous to thecommittee that in order to adva

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