Bcfrication. 



To 



JOHN FELL, Esq., J. P. and D.L., 



Chairman op the Lancashire Sea-Fisheries Committee. 



Dear Mr. Fell, 



We think it most appropriate, and it is a pleasure to us, that 

 this First Lancashire Sea-Fisheries Memoir should be dedicated to you, the 

 First Chairman of the Committee under whose auspices a large proportion of 

 this and other scientific zvork on Fisheries' questions has been carried on. 



It is widely known in Lancashire that the formation of our Local 

 Sea-Fisheries Committee was largely due to your personal energy and influence, 

 and that to your wise guidance during the first decade of its existence is due 

 in great measure the success of its administration, and its present commanding 

 position. But it may be zvell to point out, what is not so generally known, 

 that from the first you recognised that the Sea-Fisheries form a department of 

 general Marine Biology, and that sound legislation and administration must be 

 founded on the results of scientific and other correct practical investigations. 



W. A. Herdman. 

 R. Boyce. 



University College, Liverpool, 

 July, 1899. 



