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digious luminosity. When it came alongside, my boatman 

 struck at it with the gaff, and off from amidst the mass 

 of phosphorescent light the iron gaff came with a click. 

 He struck again with the same result. And he said, " This 

 thing is not right, master ; let it go." I did not. I gave a 

 dead haul, and got aboard a very large sprawling cray-fish. 

 It was not, as my boatman had supposed, a direct emanation 

 from the regions below. 



DISCUSSION.* 



Mr. KENNETH CORNISH, after some remarks on the 

 value of fish as food, having particular reference to a paper 

 read by Sir Henry Thompson at a previous Conference, 

 was going on to describe an improved method which he 

 had adopted for cooking food, when he was reminded by 

 the Chairman that the special subject of the Conference 

 that day was crustaceans. He said he would not detain 

 the meeting, but had also devised a method for preserving 

 fish in the form of powder, by which the whole of 

 the nutritive constituents were preserved, including the 

 albumen. 



Mr. BIRKBECK, M.P., then moved a vote of thanks to 

 Mr. Cornish and to Mr. Saville Kent for their interesting 

 Papers, which had contained a deal of information 

 which was probably new to many persons present. 

 Mr. Cornish had told them of a remarkable fishing ground 

 on the coast of Cornwall, which might be safely fished 

 without any restrictions, whilst on the other hand Mr. 

 Saville Kent had given statistics proving that the supply 



The following discussion and motions carried, refer in part to a 

 Paper that was read the same afternoon by Mr. W. Saville Kent, on the 

 subject of " Artificial Culture of Lobsters." 



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