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CASE B contains printed matter, plates, photographs, 
and drawings illustrating the publications, both adminis- 
trative and scientific, of the Lancashire Sea-Fisheries 
Committee, and other work bearing upon the fisheries of 
the district. 
One end of the case is occupied by the series of photo- 
graphs taken recently by Mr. Andrew Scott to illustrate 
Mr. Dawson’s lecture on the methods of fishing in Lan- 
cashire. These show the appearance of the fleets and 
the fishing boats, of different kinds, in different positions, 
and also such peculiar methods of fishing as the cart 
shrimp net, the power net, using the “‘jumbo”’ and the 
‘“‘craam,” and “treading for cockles.” 
The opposite end of the case contains a set of drawings 
and water-colour sketches, made by Professor Herdman, 
in illustration of his jot investigation with Professor 
Boyce, on ‘‘oysters and disease.’”’ These show the 
external appearance and the internal structure of various 
kinds of oysters—natives, French, Dutch, and American, 
in both healthy and unhealthy conditions. Some of the 
drawings represent the minute structure as seen under 
the microscope. 
A further series of drawings, and a large number of 
specimens, microscopic and otherwise, in illustration of 
the oyster investigation, will be found in another case. 
At this same end of Case B, below the drawings, are 
exhibited some series of the microscopic slides which are 
prepared in the laboratory in the course of the scientific 
investigations. Some of them are thin sections of fishes 
and other marine animals, others are scales, eggs, em- 
bryos and various pieces of internal organs, prepared, 
stained, and mounted for microscopic examination. 
