CONFERENCE ON MONDAY, i6iH JULY, 1883. 



PRESERVATION OF FISH LIFE IN 

 RIVERS BY EXCLUSION OF TOWN 

 SEWAGE. 



The Chair was taken by FRANCIS GOULD, Esq., in 

 the absence of the Marquis of Hamilton, who had sent 

 a letter saying he was compelled to leave town. The 

 Chairman said he was much interested in this question ; 

 and had only recently attended a meeting on the same 

 subject, which was one intimately connected with the work 

 proposed to be done by this splendid Exhibition. Mr. 

 Mainwaring was the Chairman of the Aylesbury Native 

 Guano Co., whose works he had several times had the 

 pleasure of visiting, and as a member of the Thames 

 Valley Joint Sewerage Board, he was aware of the work 

 on which the Board had been engaged for many years at 

 vast expense, in endeavouring to free the Thames from 

 its pollution. He hoped they would succeed in doing so 

 ere long, and he was quite sure that if ever it were done, it 

 would be by working in the same direction as the Ayles- 

 bury Company. They had tried irrigation and diversion, but 

 the Board had come unanimously to the conclusion to try 

 chemical treatment. The importance of this question was 

 palpable to every one who had considered it, and he 

 hoped when this paper had been read it would be still more 

 palpable to the public at large. 



