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ADDENDUM. 



Since the reading of the foregoing Paper I have thought 

 it desirable to take this opportunity of removing one or 

 two misconceptions which appear to have arisen as to the 

 scope of the Society whose formation I have ventured to 

 advocate, and especially on the point whether such a 

 Society would necessarily interfere with the work and 

 interests of the " National Fish Culture Association," or of 

 any other body already formed to take up any particular 

 branch of the great question of the Fisheries. 



The observation of Dr. Day — which (so far as it relates 

 to Mr. Huxley), did not reach my ears during the discus- 

 sion — that "both Professor Huxley and Mr. Fryer must 

 have taken their views from the Prospectus of the National 

 Fish Culture Association," is sufficiently disposed of, 

 so far as Mr. Huxley is concerned, by the fact that, (as 

 mentioned by Mr. Huxley in his Inaugural Address 

 which I quoted, and with which Dr. Day was pre- 

 sumably acquainted, either as a hearer or as a reader,) 

 the idea of " an influential Society specially devoted to 

 the British Fisheries," was suggested so long ago as 1866, 

 in the Report of the Royal Commission on Sea Fisheries, 

 of which Mr. Huxley was a member. So far as I am 

 personally concerned. Dr. Day's assumption rests on no 

 stronger foundation. I can only repeat that I was ignorant 

 of the existence of the paragraph in the Report alluded to 

 until I heard it quoted in Mr. Huxley's address ; and that 

 the proposal to form a National Fisheries Society had been 

 suggested by me to the Commissioner for Conferences before 

 the opening of the conferences. That I did not derive my 

 inspiration from the prospectus of the National Fish Cul- 

 ture Association will be understood when I say I have 

 always regarded that Association as having been formed for 

 the sole purpose of encouraging " fish culture" — as the state- 

 ment of its " objects " sets forth — "by founding, promoting or 

 acquiring establishments for fish culture and by aiding or 

 undertaking such experiments as shall seem advisable : by 

 using its best endeavours, with the consent of the authorities, 

 to encourage and assist in the stocking of public and all 

 other available waters which are placed under suitable 



