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degree on fact, which cannot be said of many theories 

 that are propounded in these days ; and I merely 

 suggest it for what it is worth. For the rest, it 

 seems to me that, instead of spending more time and 

 money in fruitless efforts to stamp out saprolegnia 

 by such means as is proposed in one of the provisions 

 of the new Scotch Fisheries Act, which was to have 

 been brought in in the session of 1888, it would be 

 far wiser to wait patiently until further researches 

 have been made, and the results of experiments by 

 scientists, whose attention is still being given to the 

 question, have been made known. 



