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THE fiftieth anniversary of the Liverpool Biological Society is an event of more than local importance in that the large amount of original work by its members has wide significance, particularly through the foundations laid by one of its most prominent leaders, the late Sir William Herdman. Founded in 1886, the Liverpool Biological Society has since worked in close association with the Department of Zoology of the University of Liverpool, the Lancashire Sea Fisheries Laboratory and the Liverpool Marine Biological Committee which was started as a section of it, but some years ago, on the origin of the Department and chair of oceanography at the University, was absorbed in that. The Transactions of the Society have been issued annually and contain a wealth of original papers. The Society has always had distinguished presidents, some prominent past names being Profs. W. Mitchell Banks, Sir William Herdman, R. J. Harvey Gibson, Robert Newstead, P. G. H. Boswell, W. Dakin and J. Johnstone; the present holder of the office is Dr. R. J. Daniel. It was Sir William Herdman, in pre-War days, who succeeded in interesting city businessmen in the Society's activities, thereby increasing its financial support and enabling it to build up a valuable library. In 1924, the Liverpool Heredity Society amalgamated with it, following which special attention was given to this side of biological study. Although the Society's membership was 130 ten years ago, it now musters only about sixty, chiefly connected with the University. With its annual meeting in October, it meets, usually, at the University, every month during winter, with occasional summer excursions.
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The Liverpool Biological Society. Nature 138, 716 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138716b0
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