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other scientific exhibits—such as that of the Marine 
Biological Association—in the large north gallery, it was 
in a small badly lighted annexe; but several scientific 
men and others (such as the editor of the ‘‘ Fish Trades 
Gazette’’) remarked publicly upon the interesting and 
important nature of the Lancashire Exhibit. 
At the close of the London Exhibition the cases and 
their contents were brought back to Liverpool, and, with 
the sanction of the Committee and the permission of the 
authorities of University College, Mr. Scott and I arranged, 
during the autumn, a small but representative Sea- 
Fisheries Exhibition, of which the London Exhibit 
formed the nucleus, in the College Museum of Zoology. 
This exhibition was formally opened by the Chairman of 
the Lancashire Sea-Fisheries Committee in the presence 
of a representative audience on October 29th. An address 
was delivered by Mr. Fell upon ‘“‘Some Aspects of the 
Work of Sea-Fisheries Committees, and speeches were 
made by the Principal of University College, the Chairman 
of the Technical Instruction Committee of the Liverpool 
City Council, and others. The exhibit was then opened 
to the public during the next few weeks on certain hours 
and days. At the end of three weeks I was able to report 
to the November Meeting of the Committee that over 
1000 persons had visited the exhibition, and when we 
finally closed it at the end of the year, the total number 
of visitors was 1,550. On several days set demonstrations 
or explanations of the collection were given to a party 
of Board School teachers, to a group of fishermen from 
Hoylake, and to a company of children. 
The museum, the nature of its contents, and the 
speeches at the opening of the exhibition were very fully 
and favourably reported by the Liverpool Press, and there 
is reason to believe that not only was the exhibition of 
