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agricultural land near large towns, almost useless for growing 
wheat, it has great value for growing vegetables, supply- 
ing eggs, poultry, milk, &c., and our coast fisheries must 
supply shrimps, cockles, mussels, smaller fish, &c., for 
which there is always a large demand, and a large and 
valuable element in our population must be encouraged to 
find better means of fishing, not worried and harassed by 
utterly senseless prosecutions. 
It has always appeared to me extraordinary that when 
the Lancashire County Council got their powers they 
utterly ignored all that had been done before, and refusing 
to commence with such light as there was and work on 
from that, they commenced de novo groping in absolute 
darkness. Probably the members of the County Council 
were not told by their scientific advisers what had been 
done, though there were many sources of information to 
startfrom. I refer especially to the Government enquiries 
all round our coasts by Messrs. Buckland and Walpole, 
now Sir Spencer Walpole, K.C.B. In passing, let me pay 
a tribute to my old friend, Frank Buckland. It is the 
fashion among many of our modern scientists to sneer at 
Eee as a naturalist because his ways were not their 
ways. He was educated before the modern schools of 
biology assigned to themselves such vast importance and lost 
the study of Nature in microscopic investigation. As the 
eminent Japanese zoologist, Professor Mitsukuri, mournfully 
