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authorities and others, for the distribution of the fish 

 caught at such infinite trouble, to find good quahties in 

 fish which they have been apt to despise as " offal," and, 

 when they have bought it and paid for it, to cook it with 

 some regard for its value, after the enormous labour it has 

 cost to brine: it to their doors. 



DISCUSSION. 



Dr. Francis Day said the Paper which had just been 

 read would commend itself as showing what was required 

 for the fisheries of this country. There was only one thing 

 he had to remark. It appeared to him that something 

 similar already existed, for he thought the Chairman 

 presided at a meeting held at Fishmongers Hall last year, 

 and several gentlemen now present were at the same 

 meeting, when a society was formed, such as Mr. Fryer 

 now proposed to inaugurate. He should almost have 

 thought that Mr. Fryer was ignorant of that society, but 

 when he looked at the names of the council, he found 

 amongst them Mr. Fryer himself; and, therefore, it ap- 

 peared to him that both Professor Huxley and Mr. Fryer 

 must have taken their views from the prospectus of the 

 National Fish Culture Association, which he held in his 

 hand. It was true that Mr. Fryer proposed to alter the 

 name of the Association into the National Fishery Society, 

 a proposal which he had himself made on the day the 

 society was inaugurated, with the exception that he sug- 

 gested National Fisheries Institution. Passing on to the 

 question of sea fisheries, it was evident that Mr. Fryer held 

 the opinion that those who thought the sea fisheries were 

 being overworked were raising a false alarm, that in fact the 



