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in green mackerel, and in the West Indies poisoning among 

 the negroes was exceedingly common from eating the 

 barracouta and yellow bill sprat. The only thing which 

 seemed entirely to destroy these poisonous effects was 

 thoroughly drying and salting the fish. 



Mr. WlLMOT (Canadian Commissioner) said he had 

 listened with much attention to Dr. Cobbold's remarks, but he 

 was of opinion that the parasites referred to were in the 

 fish at a time when they might be called foul or unclean, or 

 unfit for human food at any rate they predominated in 

 them during that period. If they were only to consider 

 that there was a time for eating fish, as there was for any 

 other food, when it was in a proper condition they need not 

 be alarmed at these parasites, but unfortunately large 

 quantities of fish were caught in an unfit condition, their 

 abdomens distended with the ova. Was it not a fact that 

 they had laws forbidding the killing of salmon in that 

 state ; and no farmer would be allowed to bring into the 

 market a beast that was far advanced in pregnancy. Fish 

 were out of sight, and therefore to a certain extent, out of 

 mind, but they laboured under the same difficulties as the 

 domestic animals, and it was the duty of man to protect 

 them during the breeding season. 



Professor BROWN GOODE (United States Commissioner), 

 in moving a vote of thanks to Sir Henry Thompson, said 

 he considered the Paper was the most important that had 

 been presented. Many of the other papers had been of 

 great interest to certain localities, but this was of great 

 importance to every part of the world, and he hoped it would 

 be translated into many languages. He was sure that his 

 own countrymen would read the paper with much interest. 

 It had been suggested that there were many fish in the 

 English waters which were not properly appreciated, and 



