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anglers of London must put their hands in their pockets 

 and give them proper support. 



Mr. SENIOR remarked that some gentlemen seemed to 

 forget that the National Fish Culture Association was at 

 the present moment only in its infancy, and although it^was 

 really established to do what they had heard should be 

 done and must be done, up to the present it had had no 

 possible time for formulating a scheme. He must differ 

 from his friend who had preceded him as to Mr. Marston's 

 paper. There was nothing easier than to criticise a paper 

 written and read by another man, but he considered they 

 were all much indebted to Mr. Marston for what he had 

 done, and it was not for him to put his head into a hornet's 

 nest by formulating a scheme for other people to pick to 

 pieces. If there was anything which he hated more than 

 another it was a long speech or a long sermon, and it was 

 a very admirable rule that papers read there should not 

 exceed half an hour. Now in his half hour paper Mr. 

 Marston had given the result of a good deal of study ; he 

 had told them what had been done on the continent, and 

 what had been done in this country. There were other 

 papers which would deal with the scientific possibilities of 

 the question of fish culture, and he thought it very wise in 

 Mr. Marston not to attempt a scheme, but to allow scientific 

 men of greater age and experience to put their heads 

 together and furnish the scheme. He had been asked by 

 Mr. Oldham Chambers, secretary to the Fish Culture 

 Association, to apologise for his inability to be present, he 

 having had to go down to Norfolk in order to arrange for a 

 little excursion for the Foreign Commissioners and others 

 to the broads of East Anglia, which teemed with coarse 

 fish, and which he hoped some day would be stocked with 

 black bass. The Angling Preservation Societies, the parent 



