THE Liverpool Marine Biology Committee, which commenced the investigation of the fauna and flora of Liverpool Bay and the neighbouring seas seven years ago, and has kept up a small biological station on Puffin Island, Anglesey, for the last five years, passed on Saturday (June 4) into a new phase of its existence, and, it may be hoped, a more extended sphere of labour, when His Excellency Spencer Walpole, Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man, declared the new marine laboratory at Port Erin to be open for work. The Puffin Island establishment has been very useful to the Committee, and well worth the small annual expenditure required for its modest outfit. It has been used by a few students who wished to gain a general knowledge of the common marine animals and plants in a living state, and by a limited number of specialists who went there to make observations, or who had the material for their investigations collected there and sent to them. But the Committee has felt for the last year, at least, that a station which was more readily accessible from Liverpool, and with hotel or lodging accommodation obtainable on the spot, would enable their members to do more work, and be of more use both to students and to investigators. Also, it was evident that after five years' work on the shores of the small island the greater number of the plants and animals had been collected and examined, and that a change to a new locality with a rich fauna and a more extended line of coast would yield increased material for faunistic work. On looking round the Liverpool Marine Biology Committee's district, Port Erin, at the southern end of the Isle of Man, at once presented itself as the best available place.