The New Biological Station at Port Erin (Isle of Man), Being the ... Annual Report of the Liverpool Marine Biology Committee, Volume 18, Part 1904

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Page 47 - CONSTITUTION OF THE LMBC (Established March, 1885.) I. — The OBJECT of the LMBC is to investigate the Marine Fauna and Flora (and any related subjects 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.
Page 83 - There can be no doubt that some of these buried vessels are of far more ancient date than others. Those most roughly hewn, may be relics of the stone period; those more smoothly cut, of the bronze age ; and the regularly built boat of Bankton may perhaps come within the age of iron.
Page 50 - VI. — Each worker is entitled to a work place opposite a window in the Laboratory, and may make use of the microscopes, reagents, and other apparatus, and of the boats, dredges, tow-nets, &c., so far as is compatible with the claims of other workers, and with the routine work of the Station.
Page 48 - Sea; and if practicable to establish and maintain a Biological Station on some convenient part of the coast. II. — The COMMITTEE shall consist of not more than 12 and not less than 10 members, of whom 3 shall form a quorum ; and a meeting shall be called at least once a year for the purpose of arranging the Annual Report, passing the Treasurer's accounts, and transacting any other necessary business. III. — During the year the AFFAIRS of the Committee shall be conducted by an HON. DIRECTOR, who...
Page 49 - Chadwick), who will keep the keys, and will decide, in the event of any difficulty, which places are to be occupied by workers, and how the tanks, boats, collecting apparatus, &c., are to be employed.
Page 88 - Stone Monuments," (p. 158). To this account, which is not quite accurate, he adds that from simple inspection it is evident that these cists must at one time have been covered with earth, and if so, thinks that so far as one example can go they would tend to prove that the circular vallum at Avebury and many other localities was a place for the deposit of bodies. He remarks upon the two gaps or openings in the circle opposite one another, as at Arbor Low and Penrith, but suggests that they may have...
Page 122 - 6 feet 3 inches from the ground to the spring of the roof; and the western gable 16 feet 9 inches to the peak. In the south wall near the eastern angle is the door of entrance, 5 feet 2 inches in height, by 2 feet 6 inches at base, diminishing upwards to 2 feet. Opposite, in the north side, is a square-headed window, and another in the , — -__ south wall near the west end.
Page 41 - CHONDRUS, 0. V. Darbishire, 50 pp., 7 Pis., 2s. 6d. X. PATELLA, JRA Davis and HJ Fleure, 84 pp., 4 Pis., 2s. 6d. XI. ARENICOLA, JH Ashworth, 126 pp., 8 Pis., 4s. 6d. XII. GAMMARUS, M. Cussans, 55 pp., 4 Pis., 2s. ,, XIII. ANURIDA, AD Imms, 107 pp., 8 Pis., 4s. XIV. LIGIA, CG Hewitt, 45 pp., 4 Pis., 2s. XV. ANTEDON, HC Chadwick, 55 pp., 7 Pis., 2s.
Page 143 - FIG. 43. grounds, which, on the east, would be well defended by the river, doubtless in those days deeper and at a lower level. An indication of the former level of the ground appears in the Refectory, now converted into a stable, where the tops of the windows appear almost on a level with the present floor. Near by, at the foot of the mill dam, which may have been raised by the Cistercians themselves, is the "Crossag," an example of a thirteenth century bridge, nearly in the same state as it was...
Page 118 - Such veneration and superstition lingers on to our own day. for we are told that in 1859 " a farmer in the Isle of Man offered a heifer up as a propitiatory sacrifice, so that no harm might befall him from the opening of a tumulus upon his land.

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