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would hand these over to Professor Herdman. The worthy 
professor would examine their gizzards, and we should, to 
be on all fours with the fishery reports, have a learned. 
explanation as to the percentage of turtle soup and venison 
fat in one series of subjects, and the brown bread and oat-: 
meal in the other, and some very sagacious remarks as to 
the evident superiority of the one diet to the other, gauged 
by the condition of the subjects, but cu bono, neither Pro- 
fessor Herdman nor all the County Council can arrange 
such a trifling matter as that paupers shall have the fare of 
Aldermen. Infinitely less can they do to provide fish in the 
sea in poor circumstances with diet to them ‘‘ aldermanic.” 
When we come to analyse commercially the practical 
work done by this costly institution, whether we take the 
pretty but pitifully meagre, as far as any progress is con- 
cerned, exhibition which is being hawked from town to 
town, or the reports presented to the Committee, or the 
result of ten years’ police persecution of the fishermen, 
and compare it with the heavy yearly bill and the vast 
means employed—the whole biological staff of University 
College, a highly-salaried Superintendent of Sea Fisheries, 
a small army of thirteen water bailiffs, a powerful, well- 
found steamer, sundry other boats, nets, and scientific ap- 
paratus galore ; astation at Port Erin, and another at Peel— 
it gives us one distinction. There is an old story of two 
little girls disputing about the grandeur of their ancestral 
