had derived much advantage from the instruction they had 

 brought. They were all aware of the go-ahead ways of the 

 race on the other side of the Atlantic, but of all the go- 

 ahead statements he had ever listened to, that of Professor 

 Honey man, who recommended people to eat fish when they 

 were diseased, seemed the most remarkable. There had 

 been many discussions in that hall, but in his opinion none 

 so instructing and interesting as that which had taken place 

 to-day, and he felt that the public were much indebted to 

 Professor Huxley for the time and attention he had devoted 

 to this important subject. He had confined himself to the 

 salmon disease, and probably he was quite right in so doing, 

 the salmon in our rivers being the means of giving such a 

 vast amount of food to all classes of the population, that 

 it would be a lamentable thing if, owing to the ravages of 

 any kind of disease, its supply should be in any way limited. 

 Two points which he had brought out seemed to him of 

 especial importance, viz., that though the exterior of the fish 

 might show signs of the disease, the inside did not appear 

 to be affected ; and, secondly, that the epidemic could not be 

 traced either to pollution or overcrowding of the rivers. In 

 conclusion he would express a hope that as the result of 

 Professor Huxley's labours, not only scientific, but practical, 

 men interested in fisheries would devote further time and 

 energy to study the causes of these diseases, and ultimately 

 discover a remedy by which the diseases might be entirely 

 eradicated. 



