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appear extravagant to some persons who are not 

 aware of what has been done elsewhere. 



The " Zoological Station " of Naples, founded and 

 directed by Dr. Anton Dohrn, is no less costly and 

 efficient an institution than that which I have briefly 

 sketched. Elsewhere, at Trieste, at Concarneau, at 

 Boscoff, at Beaufort in North Carolina, less costly in- 

 stitutions have been set going, which are doing most 

 valuable work. 



The British coast is entirely destitute of any such 

 home of research. No zoologists are employed by the 

 Government or other authorities in this country to 

 investigate our fishery-animals : those zoologists who 

 do carry on such work on the coasts of this country, 

 do so at their own expense. There is not even a 

 laboratory, a boat or a dredging apparatus, provided 

 by any public body to assist them. Naturally enough 

 their work has not been hitherto specially directed to 

 problems connected with fisheries ; but it is only 

 needful to offer to the many isolated investigators the 

 use of a good laboratory and a well-considered organi- 

 sation, in order to obtain through their co-operation 

 the new knowledge which is so urgently needed. 



I cannot but think that it will be a matter for 

 profound congratulation to those who have brought 

 this Exhibition into existence, to the Legislature, to 

 men of science and to those concerned in fisheries, 

 should we be able in future to point to a " National 

 Laboratory of Marine Zoology" as THE Scientific 

 Eesult of the London International Fisheries Exhibi- 

 tion. 



