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thought the Exhibition would be a financial success, and 

 he sincerely hoped such would be the case. 



Mr. BRADY seconded the vote of thanks, which was 

 carried unanimously. 



Professor HUXLEY then proposed a cordial vote of 

 thanks to Earl Ducie for his conduct of the business of the 

 meeting. As the Marquis of Hamilton had observed, Earl 

 Ducie was himself an experienced and practical trawler, and 

 he quite coincided with what he said about the value of dis- 

 cussions upon the Paper. It was a somewhat unusual circum- 

 stance that there should be in the chair a nobleman who 

 could practically manage the business of a trawler as well as 

 any of those practical gentlemen who had been before them. 



His Excellency Admiral POLO DE BERNABE seconded 

 the motion, which was carried unanimously. 



The CHAIRMAN, in responding, said he felt much pleasure 

 in having heard the Paper in which Mr. Ansell had 

 given such a very exhaustive account of the growth of the 

 trawling-trade, of the increase in the size of the ships, and 

 of the greater spirit of venture on the part of the fishermen 

 themselves in traversing wider spaces of the ocean and 

 deeper waters. No one had yet traced the origin of 

 trawling. Mr. 'Holdsworth, in his valuable work on sea- 

 fishing, said it was probably not a century old. But 

 curiously enough Mr. Froude in his History of England, 

 when describing the running fight with the Armada, tells 

 us that when further munitions of war were wanted the 

 " fastest trawler " in Brixham came out with further 

 supplies ; here he was probably mistaken the vessel 

 being, no doubt, no more than a fishing boat. He was 

 very glad to hear from Mr. Ansell that he believed there 

 was a great future for trawling. They were apt to hear 

 rather doleful accounts of the prospects of fishing ; that 



