ARTIFICIAL OYSTER CULTURE. 1131 



THE Scientific Result of the London International Fisheries 

 Exhibition, (x} 



In the course of reply to the above, His Grace the 

 Duke of Argyll, who presided on the occasion, implied 

 that although he did not agree with all that Professor 

 Lankester had advanced, he certainly did in what follows : 

 Now the suggestion made by Professor Lankester, and he 

 suspected the whole of his paper led up to this, was that 

 the Government of this country did too little in these mat- 

 ters, and he was quite willing to plead guilty that the 

 Government had done far too little for science. The 

 system in England was for everything to be done by 

 private enterprise, and hitherto it had been relied upon 

 almost entirely. It was true we had our national geolo- 

 gical surveys, but not even those were conducted on the 

 scale which they were by the Government of the United 

 States, whose splendid publications they were sometimes 

 good enough to send him, illustrated by every species of 

 drawing and section. He thought \ve did too little in the 

 matter ; but it was not very easy to know exactly where to 

 begin. Professor Lankester had made a practical sugges- 

 tion, which he said had been warmly taken up by some of 

 the most distinguished men of science ; Sir John Lubbock, 

 Professors Sclater, Michael Foster, Burdon Sanderson, 

 Flower, Romanes, Sedgwick, Mosely, Williams, Marshall, 

 Thistleton-Dyer, and Allman, and their recommendation 

 was that a scientific observatory should be set up ; a scien- 

 tific aquarium, with fully equipped rooms for investigation 

 and dissection of all kinds, as it had been at Naples, at the 



(x) " Scientific Results of the Exhibition." By Professor E. Ray 

 Lankester. Papers of the Conferences held in connection with the 

 Great International Fisheries Exhibition. London, 1883. (William 

 Clowes & Sons, Limited.) 



