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The matter has also been fully considered by a com- 

 mittee at University College, which has drawn up a 

 detailed curriculum of instruction, and the scheme now 

 only awaits a conference between the University and the 

 County authorities before becoming a working department 

 in a most important branch of technical knowledge. 

 With our extensive scientific Laboratories and the 

 Fisheries department and Museum at University College, 

 with our sea-fish hatchery and experimental tanks at Piel, 

 and with the steamer and system of bailiffs under Mr. 

 Dawson, we possess already organised and co-ordinated in 

 Lancashire such a mechanism for instruction in Fishery 

 knowledge from the scientific, from the industrial, and 

 from the administrative sides, as probably does not yet 

 exist elsewhere in the country. 



If the County Technical Instruction Committee will 

 help in meeting the necessary expenses of selected 

 students passing through a two or three years' curriculum, 

 and the Laboratory expenses of showing to the bailiffs and 

 a limited number of fishermen the methods of investigation 

 and the microscopic, chemical, and other facts which they 

 hear about in lectures and reports, it can scarcely be 

 doubted that much more will be done thereby in the 

 dissemination of real and accurate knowledge than can 

 possibly be effected by imperfect and sporadic courses of 

 lectures to the fishermen. 



Turning now to such special work as I have been able 

 to do myself for this Eeport : — 



(1.) I have considered it useful in the present state of 

 affairs to discuss somewhat fully Mr. Fryer's criticism 

 of Sea-Fish Hatching in America, which appeared in the 

 last Report of the Inspectors for England and Wales 

 (1898). I have had some correspondence on the matter 

 with the United States Fish Commission, and I may 



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