randa" throiighont the year, and of tliis "Report — has 

 been taken up with the removal of tlie travelhiio- Fisheries 

 Exhibition from town to town. The packin<^- and nnpack- 

 ino; of specimens, the renewal of labels, iS:c., takes up a 

 <]jood deal of the time both of Mr. Johnstone and also of 

 the laboratory boy — for the first half of the year Thomas 

 Mercer, now William Raw. 



The Exhibition, it will be remembered, was opened by 

 Mr. Fell in Liverpool in October, 1897, and has now been 

 exhibited at the following institutions in Lancashire : — 

 University College, Liverpool, from Oct., 1897, to March, 

 1898; Royal Musemn, Peel Park, Salford, from March, 

 1898, to Oct., 1898; Free Public Museum, Preston, from 

 Oct., 1898, to April, 1899 ; Chadwick Museum, Bolton, 

 from May, 1899, to Oct., 1899; and is now at University 

 College, Liverpool, from Oct., 1899, to March, 1900. 



Mr. Mullen has reported that while the exhibition was 

 at Salford it was visited by 120,000 persons, Mr. Bramwell 

 has estimated that during the six months at Preston it 

 was visited by, on an average, 500 persons daily, say 75,000 

 in all, while Mr. Midgley writes to me — " During the time 

 of its exhibition in Bolton it has been visited by upwards 

 of 50,000 people, and no doubt some in the district have 

 been led to take a deeper interest in the subject of our food 

 supply, and in the work of the County Council in respect 

 to fish-culture than previously." The Exhibition is at 

 present in Liverpool being re-fitted and re-arranged and 

 re-labelled. Early in spring it will be removed to the 

 Gamble Institute, St. Helens, where it will remain for six 

 months ; after that it is promised to Warrington ; South- 

 port will, I believe, apply for it, and visits to Barrow and 

 other places have been suggested. 



I am disappointed that the scheme for Fisheries Scholar- 

 ships and studentships, which was outlined in the last 



