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to do anything else, or to serve on any other committee. 
Before the end of the fortnight we succeeded in opening 
the Aquarium with our tanks in a beautiful condition; 800 
fishes were in them, nearly 3,000 anemones (some of these 
are still living), and other specimens. The whole of these 
I caught or collected myself at Fleetwood. 
_ After that time, for fifteen years, I had the sole and 
entire management of the Southport Aquarium, and not 
only that, but I caught more than three-fourths of all the 
fish they ever possessed, and during that time I was 
intimately associated with the fishermen along our coast, 
and formed a very high opinion of them. 
We had to solve the question of catching the fish, 
feeding, and keeping them. The work done attracted the 
attention of Mr. Frank Buckland, Sir Spencer Walpole, 
Inspectors of Sea Fisheries, and Mr. Archibald Young, 
Inspector of Salmon Fisheries in Scotland. From almost 
the beginning to the end of the time I was engaged in the 
work I enjoyed their friendship, and I constantly gave them 
such information as I possessed on the question of fisheries. 
I made Mr. Buckland most of the microscopic sneer laid 
for his Oyster Fisheries Bill, and I was asked again and 
again by Mr. Buckland and Sir Spencer Walpole to join 
them in their enquiries, and to assist them by my local 
knowledge and my knowledge of the fishermen. I was, 
therefore, often with them. 
