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and shot into the waters of the United States, 

 most of them were fresh-water, but this total 

 includes 265 million cod, 87 million flat-fish, 

 and 77 million young lobsters. Unfortunately 

 no very critical analysis has been made of the 

 fate of these young fry when they gain the sea, 

 but the American is an optimist, and points 

 proudly to his undoubted success in establish- 

 ing his favourite shad on the shores of the Pacific 

 from ova reared on the Atlantic seaboard. 



Before leaving this branch of the subject it 

 is only right to draw attention to the numerous 

 reports and bulletins issued by the Commission. 

 They form an invaluable array of memoirs, 

 dealing not only with fishery subjects, but with 

 general biological problems and with systematic 

 zoology. 



Space does not permit our dealing with the 

 Scottish or the Irish Boards ; the former has 

 existed for a century, and being independent 

 of departmental control, provided with a mode- 

 rate income and the advice of such a series of 

 zoologists as Goodsir, Allman, Sir John Murray, 

 Professor Cossar Ewart, Professor W. C. Mclntosh 

 who has done more than anyone in the Empire 

 to elucidate the life-histories of marine fishes 



