Marine Biology in Liverpool

Abstract

THE Editor of NATURE invites me to write a short account of the marine biological investigations and the scientific fisheries work carried on of late years in the Liverpool district, and I have pleasure in complying with this request since it will enable me both (1) to acknowledge the services of friends and fellow-workers, and (2) to distinguish between three very different local bodies whose work is frequently—and perhaps not unnaturally—confounded even by marine biologists and even in Liverpool. These three bodies are the Liverpool Biological Society, the Liverpool Marine Biology Committee, and the Lancashire Sea-Fisheries Committee. They are perfectly distinct in organisation, control and object, and although the work they do is to some extent similar, still, as a result offriendly arrangement and cooperation, there has been absolutely no rivalry and no overlap or duplication of work such as might under other circumstances cause waste of time, funds and opportunity. Let me state briefly the position and work of each of these three bodies, all of which are now contributing actively to the eluci. dation of the marine biology of the Irish Sea.