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our local fisheries and local investigations it is important 

 that it should be shown locally, and to the people who are 

 interested in these fisheries and who contribute to the 

 expense of regulating them. The educational value of 

 the exhibition must also be considerable, and may perhaps 

 be gauged by the keen interest shown by visitors. 



I can speak to that from my own experience when the 

 collections were at Liverpool ; and I may also quote a 

 few sentences from letters sent to me by Mr. B. H. 

 Mullen, M.A., the Curator of the Museum at Salford 

 when the Exhibition was in that town, as follows : — 



" The Fisheries Exhibition is a very great attraction 

 here, and must be doing a lot of good. During the past 

 three days we had almost 1,000 more visitors than during 

 the same period in 1897. I place the greater part of this 

 to your most interesting exhibition." . . . 



" You will notice that in those four months (June, 

 July, August, September) last year over 95,000 persons 

 visited our museum." . . . 



" I estimate the number of persons who visited the 

 Museum while your exhibit was here to be 119,852 — say, 

 120,000." 



Mr. Mullen prepared, partly from the catalogue given 

 as an appendix in our last Report, a " Popular Guide," 

 which was largely sold to visitors to the Salford Museum 

 at the price of one halfpenny. All this can scarcely fail to 

 do much good in interesting the public in the importance 

 of Fishery questions, and in disseminating correct and 

 useful information as to the work of the Lancashire Sea- 

 Fisheries Committee. 



It is proposed that the Exhibition should be sent in April, 

 1899, to Warrington, and after that to Bolton, and then 

 St. Helens, and any others of our neighbouring towns that 

 can provide suitable accommodation, in the order of their 



