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everywhere from Cape Cod to Florida. Its production 

 was almost equal in extent to most other species. Mr. 

 Earll had estimated the value of the soft shell clam at 

 about $700,000, and he thought the production of the 

 round clam must be equal, or nearly so. When small it 

 was considered a great delicacy on the dinner-table in the 

 summer months when oysters were not in season. He was 

 led to refer to this species from the fact that Mr. F. G. 

 Moore, Curator of the Liverpool Museum, placed in his hands 

 the other day a paper in which he described a successful 

 experiment of the introduction of this round clam into the 

 waters of the St. George's Channel, and he hoped it would 

 take root here and become useful. There was another 

 species closely resembling this, the sea clam, or hen clam 

 (Macter solidissima). It was also abundant on the sandy 

 shoals, and afforded bait to fishermen to something like 

 $30,000 or $40,000 a year. This also might be introduced 

 with advantage in the North Sea. Many species in 

 America, as, for instance, the mussel, the whelk, the cockle, 

 and the little littarina (the common name of which he 

 did not know), were exceedingly abundant, but were not 

 gathered by fishermen to any extent. He had great 

 pleasure in moving the vote of thanks to Mr. Harding for 

 his Paper. 



Alderman SMETHURST (Grimsby) had great pleasure 

 in seconding the motion. He said he was aware of the 

 difficulty of blending instruction and entertainment together 

 to the satisfaction of an audience, and this seemed to be 

 more a question to be reasoned out amongst a number of 

 gentlemen practically acquainted with it in Conference, 

 than to be talked about in a General Assembly. Speaking 

 of bait, they all knew what was most suitable for their own 

 localities in fishing, and the bait used differed considerably 



