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he might mention that in New York they had a society 

 called the Ichthyophagus Club consisting of intelligent and 

 philanthropic gentlemen who met together once a year to 

 dine upon fish and it was customary to have new kinds of 

 fish brought forward and cooked by the best cooks. 

 Through the agency of that organisation quite a number 

 of valuable fish had been introduced to the knowledge 

 of the public at large, and the influence upon the fish trade 

 of the United States had been very considerable, and he 

 thought something of the kind might be useful in other 

 countries. 



Mr. ALFRED JARDINE seconded the vote of thanks, 

 which was put and carried unanimously. 



Sir HENRY THOMPSON, in reply, said he should have 

 very little to say because the discussion had not been such 

 as to require further remarks from him. Professor Cobbold 

 was the highest authority in this country on the subject of 

 all parasites affecting the human body, and he was only 

 too happy to learn from him how little they had to fear on 

 that point in eating fish. He desired to repeat, lest he 

 should have been misunderstood, that he was not an advo- 

 cate for an exclusively fish diet for any one. Nor did he 

 think that it was wise to limit our resources, in choosing 

 our food, to the products of either the vegetable or the 

 animal kingdom alone. The whole of these should be at 

 our disposal, and it was for man to decide for himself what 

 form of diet was most suitable. The wants and the circum- 

 stances of the human race are so varied, and individual 

 constitutions so widely different, that dogmatism in the 

 matter of diet was, in his opinion, a mistake. Thus, two 

 persons might sit down and eat exactly the same meal and 

 the one would derive a great amount of nourishment from 

 it and the other scarcely any. But relative to the particular 



