[11] THE LONDON FISHERIES EXHIBITION. 1195 



sliowed that it had far outstripped all similar efforts made by other 

 countries, and obtained the prize of honor given by His Majesty the Em- 

 peror, and in London the prize was unanimously accorded to it as be- 

 ing the model institution of this kind. From America we may learn 

 that liberal appropriations for promoting the fisheries bear a rich in- 

 terest. 



Allow me, therefore, to conclude by expressing the hope, that as du- 

 ring the last decades agriculture and industry have been powerfully 

 promoted by the wise measures of the Government, the German sea and 

 inland fisheries may likewise flourish and reach a high degree of de- 

 velopment, thus contributing their share towards increasing the wel- 

 fare and honor of our country. 



