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secure an economical and savoury meal, which is in the 

 highest degree nutritious. This is but a single illustration 

 among many which might be adduced, of what may be 

 done by this simple method for those whose resources are 

 of the slenderest kind. 



The limits of time allotted to this paper have now been 

 reached. In bringing it to a close, I must confess how 

 difficult I have found the task of treating so large a 

 subject within so small a compass as that which has of 

 necessity been assigned to it. No one can feel more keenly 

 than myself how inadequate is this attempt to grapple 

 with the several questions which naturally arise in con- 

 sidering the fitness of fish as food for man. Should a 

 practical hint or two of any value have been furnished, or 

 should fresh light on the subject be evoked thereby in 

 discussion, I shall be well content to have had the privilege 

 of offering a slender contribution towards the furtherance 

 of an object, for the accomplishment of which are 

 associated, in active and disinterested labours, so many 

 of the noblest and of the most illustrious of our time. 



DISCUSSION. 



Dr. COBBOLD thought there was no necessity for the 

 modest apology made by Sir Henry Thompson at the end 

 of the Paper, for not being able to do full justice to the 

 subject. In the short space of time allowed he had suc- 

 ceeded in giving an immense amount of useful information, 

 but as he himself had pointed out there were some phases 

 of the subject with which it was impossible to deal, such as 

 the danger of eating fish on account of the organisms to be 

 found in some of them. There had been no less than a 

 dozen small parasites in fish described as trichines and 



