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should be, and, if these rules were accepted, it seemed to 

 him that pretty nearly indicated where this locality must 

 be. If the locality were to be on the water-side, that 

 limited it to the river, and if it were to be where the 

 railways and the water met, there were but some three 

 or four crossings, and if a space could be found for a market 

 large enough where all these requirements met together, 

 that seemed to be the place for the purpose. 



Mr. Sayer said it would be quite out of the question to 

 suppose that room for curing establishments could be 

 connected with the fish-market ; one of his curing premises 

 alone occupied an acre of ground. Fish was best cured 

 as soon as possible after it was caught, and the sooner it 

 was eaten the better it was. 



Professor HuXLEY then moved a vote of thanks to 

 Mr. Spencer Walpole. He had been struck in the course 

 of Mr. Walpole's remarks with the fullness of knowledge, 

 calmness of judgment, and clear reasoning, which made him 

 so very precious to him as a colleague during the time they 

 were associated together ; there was now an appropriate 

 fitness of things in his being transferred from the position in 

 which it was his duty to know about fish, to one in which he 

 reigned supreme master both as to temporal and spiritual 

 powers over a semi-amphibious population ; and he had 

 listened with extreme interest to the address, and, so far as 

 his inquiries had led him to deal with the particular subject 

 of the paper, must express his entire concurrence in what 

 had been said. On the other hand, it w-as particularly 

 satisfactory to him to hear the addendum which he had 

 been kind enough to make respecting the general policy of 

 fishery and fishing, for he could not but feel that, since he 

 had the honour of delivering the opening address at this 

 series of Conferences, there were a great number of people 



