3 
results we had arrived at, formed ‘‘ the practical evidence 
that Fisheries Experts from abroad especially desire to see 
when they come for information in regard to local fisheries 
and the conditions under which they are carried on.” A 
year after that, last February, I am glad to say we had a 
visit from Dr. P. P. C. Hoek, Fisheries Scientific Adviser 
in Holland, who was sent by his government to confer 
with Prof. Boyce and myself as to our work on diseased 
conditions of Oysters, and to see our specimens and 
methods of investigation. Dr. Hoek stayed for some 
time working in our laboratories, and was pleased to 
express the opinion that he had thereby been saved a 
good deal of valuable time by getting as rapidly as possible 
into touch with the details of our work, so as to be able 
to carry on investigations in Holland on similar lines, 
We have also had an interesting visit from Dr. Johan 
Hjort, Scientific Adviser on Fisheries to the Norwegian 
government. We have had some correspondence with 
Dr. Hjort since, and the Committee has been able to help 
him in his work by sending him a shank trawl such as 
we think will be best suited for the local conditions off 
the south coast of Norway, where, at depths of over 
60 fathoms Dr. Hjort has found considerable quanties of 
Pandalus borealis, a large prawn, which he thinks might 
be profitably fished. 
During the summer I went to America, and took the 
opportunity of seeing all I could of various kinds of 
Fisheries Institutions, and of talking to fisheries authori- 
ties both in Canada and the United States. I visited 
hatcheries on the east coast of Canada, saw the enormous 
numbers of salmon in the rivers of British Columbia on 
the west coast, and also met Prof. Prince, the Commis- 
sioner of Fisheries for the Dominion, as well as other 
Canadian scientific men, 
