scholarly journals The natural history of the marketable marine fishes of the British islands. Prepared by order of the council of the Marine biological association especially for the use of those interested in the sea-fishing industries. By J.T. Cunningham ... With a preface by E. Ray Lankeste

1896 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Thomas Cunningham ◽  
E. Ray Lankester
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Marine Fishes ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals The Sense-organs and Perceptions of Fishes; with Remarks on the Supply of Bait

1890 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Bateson
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Sense Organs ◽  
Marine Animals ◽  
Practical Solution ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into

The Council of the Marine Biological Association appointed me, in 1889, to make observations on the perceptions of fishes, and especially on those which constitute the modes by which they hunt for and recognise their food. It was suggested that this subject should be treated in as wide a manner as possible, and in accordance with this suggestion I have endeavoured to utilize any opportunities which presented themselves of getting an insight into the natural history of marine animals. In addition to this I have also made some experiments towards the practical solution of the bait question, both by making artificial baits, and by endeavouring to preserve materials which are already in use for bait.

The First Records of the Blue RunnerCaranx Crysos(Pisces: Carangidae) in British Waters

1996 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 543-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silja E. Swaby ◽  
Geoffrey W. Potts ◽  
John Lees
Keyword(s):  
Marine Fishes ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
Provisional Identification

In September 1992 a blue runner (Caranx crysos) (37 cm) was caught off Portland Harbour, Dorset, by an angler. Initially the specimen was not recognized as a rarity and it was damaged while being prepared as bait for a lobster pot. Fortunately it was retrieved and sent to the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food (MAFF) laboratory at Lowestoft where it was identified. In August 1993, a second blue runner (29 cm), (see Figure 1) was hand-lined in St Ives Bay, Cornwall by Mr Astrinsky, of Penzance. It was also taken to a MAFF office, at Newlyn, for identification where one of the authors made a provisional identification before sending it to the British Marine Fishes Database at the Marine Biological Association for final verification. These two fishes are the first records of the blue runner C.crysosfrom British waters, and represent a northerly extension to its range.

scholarly journals The History of the Foundation of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

1887 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-21 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Biological Station ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Crystal Palace ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Times

In the ‘Times,’ March 31st, 1884, appeared the following article:Biological station, some may be inclined to think, is simply Aquarium “writ large.” The two certainly do coincide to some extent j a biological station aa a rule implies an aquarium, but it includes a great deal more. In the early days of public aquaria, some twenty-five years ago, and down indeed to more recent times, attempts were made to utilise these institutions for scientific purposes, and biologists hoped that great results would follow from their establishment. It was in 1860 that the late Mr. Lloyd designed an aquarium for Paris, and two years later a similar one for Hamburg. Others soon followed, both in this country and on the Continent, nearly all of them constructed on the method devised by Mr. Lloyd, and several of them under his direct superintendence. Probably the earliest on a large scale in this country was the well-known establishment at the Crystal Palace, to the management of which Mr. Lloyd succeeded on the death of Mr. J. K. Lord.

A Complete List of the Opisthobranchiate Mollusca found at Plymouth; with Further Observations on their Morphology, Colours, and Natural History

1890 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Garstang
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Complete List ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
The Subject

This paper is intended to furnish a complete list of all the species of Opisthobranchiate Mollusca found up to this time by the Marine Biological Association at Plymouth, together with various notes upon their morphology and natural history. The Nudibranchiate section of the group has, however, already formed the subject of a preceding report published in this Journal, so that species which have not since been taken are recorded here by their names only, a fuller account of them being given in the previous report. All the species there recorded are distinguished in this paper by asterisks (*) affixed to their names. I have had the advantage of several works upon the classification of the group which have recently appeared, notably Carus's excellent Prodromus Faunæ Mediterraneæ, vol. ii, part 1, 1889; Bergh's Die cladohepatischen Nudibranchien (Zoolog. Jahrbüch., v, 1890; for a copy of this admirable work I am indebted to the author); and Norman's Revision of British Mollusca (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., VI, vol. vi, No. 31, 1890, pp. 60—91). I must also mention Vayssière's Recherches Zoologiques sur les Mollusques Opistobranches du Golfe de Marseille—I. Tectibranches (Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Marseille, Zool., II, 1885, Mém. No. 3) as having been of great service; and I regret that up to the time of going to press the second part of M. Vayssière's work has not arrived at the Laboratory, and I have been unable to refer to it.

Note on the Occurrence of Echinus esculentus above Low-tide Mark on the Cornish Coast

1922 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 833-834 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ethelwynn Trewavas
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Marine Invertebrate ◽  
Marine Biological Laboratory ◽  
Invertebrate Fauna ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Isle Of Man ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
Biological Laboratory ◽  
Young Specimen

When collecting on the shores in the Plymouth area, while a member of the Easter Class at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Plymouth, in 1921, I was struck by the absence above low-water mark of Echinus esculentus, as contrasted with its abundance in this zone at Port Erin in the Isle of Man; for there, as Chadwick states, “it may be collected by hand on the beach, and on the ruined breakwater at low-water of spring tides.” There is no record of this species except below tide-marks in the “Plymouth Marine Invertebrate Fauna” list (Journ. Marine Biological Association, Vol. VII, 1904).In 1849 W. P. Cocks, in the Trans. Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society (“List of Echinodermata procured in Falmouth and Neighbourhood from 1843 to 1849”), recorded the occurrence of this species thus:—“Echinus sphœra.—Trawl refuse; common: young specimen found attached to stones, low-water mark.”Later (1887–8), in the same journal, G. F. Tregelles, in a paper on “Echinodermata of Mount's Bay,” makes the following statement of the species of the genus Echinus: “The commonest and largest is E. esculentus (Pennant) [E. sphœra Forbes], which literally swarms off this coast at all depths. It is brought in by trawlers; it is found in crab-pots, into which it climbs laboriously after bait; the seaweed gatherers obtain them in from one to two fathoms of water. The Mouse-hole fishermen call them ‘zarts,’ doubtless an old Cornish word.”

scholarly journals Centenary of the Journal

1987 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 463-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. M. S. ◽  
J. V. H. ◽  
A. J. S. ◽  
E. K. R.
Keyword(s):  
Substantial Part ◽  
Marine Science ◽  
Present Issue ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
History Of ◽  
Serial Publication

The first number of the Journal-of the Marine Biological Association appeared in August 1887, during the final stages of the building of the Laboratory, while research was being carried out from rented rooms in the Barbican. To celebrate the centenary of this outstanding serial publication in marine science, and the centenary of the opening of the Laboratory in June next year, we are including in the present issue an updated account of the history of the Association, based on a version originally published in 1984 to celebrate the founding of the Association in March 1884. We are indebted to the Council of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science for permission to reprint a substantial part of the text that appeared in their Transactions for 1984.

Marine Biodiversity: Causes and Consequences

1996 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.F.G. Ormond
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Marine Conservation ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
Marine Biodiversity ◽  
Marine Science ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
The World

A meeting on Marine biodiversity: causes and consequences was held in York on 30 August – 2 September 1994, organized by the Marine Biological Association and the Scottish Association for Marine Science and supported by the World Wildlife Fund for Nature, the Natural History Museum and the Marine Conservation Society. The following 16 papers were first presented at this meeting.

scholarly journals Larval and Post-larval Lima from Plymouth

1937 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 705-710 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie V. Lebour
Keyword(s):  
Marine Fauna ◽  
Biological Association ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
The North ◽  
Marine Biological Association ◽  
North Side

Two species of Lima are known from Plymouth: Lima hians (Gmelin), the commonest species, inhabiting small patches of stones with muddy gravel at extreme low-tide mark on the north side of the Breakwater, where many individuals may be found together, and Lima loscombi Sowerby, found on the coarse grounds west of the Eddystone, Rame-Eddystone Grounds, Mewstone Grounds, Stoke Point Grounds and southwest of the Eddystone (see Marine Biological Association, Plymouth Marine Fauna, 1931). The latter is a much smaller species than the former, not so highly coloured, and much rarer. Although it is often difficult to obtain Lima hians, as it is only accessible at very low tides, it occurs in numbers in the locality cited.

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