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the Diseases of Fish already mentioned, but administra- 

 tion, committee meetings, and more a speech on 

 behalf of the Commissioners in reply to the welcome 

 given them by the Prince of Wales at the opening of 

 the Exhibition. On the following day he expressed 

 his feelings at this mode of spending his time in a 

 letter to Sir M. Foster. 



I am dog-tired with yesterday's function. Had to be 

 at the Exhibition in full fig at 10 A.M., and did not get 

 home from the Fishmongers' dinner till 1.20 this 

 morning. 



Will you tell me what all this has to do with my 

 business in life, and why the last fragments of a misspent 

 life that are left to me are to be frittered away in all 

 this drivel ? Yours savagely, 



T. H. H. 



Later in the year, also, he had to serve on another 

 Fishery Commission much against his will, though 

 on the understanding that, in view of his other 

 engagements, he need not attend all the sittings. 



A more satisfactory result of the Exhibition was 

 that he found himself brought into close contact with 

 several of the great city companies, whose enormous 

 resources he had long been trying, not without some 

 success, to enlist on behalf of technical and scientific 

 education. 



Among these may be noted the Fishmongers, the 

 Mercers, who had already interested themselves in 

 technical education, and gave their hall for the 

 meetings of the City and Guilds Council, of which 



