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appreciative terms to the investigations on shell-fish, both 

 under healthy and unhealthy conditions, which have been 

 carried out by the Lancashire Sea-Fisheries Committee. 



Dr. Bulstrode's companionship and co-operation in 

 these investigations have been of great value to us, and 

 it has been encouraging to find that we were generally 

 taking the same view of the problems that he did, and 

 were reporting on the various localities in very* similar 

 terms. As a final reference to his recent Report, I may 

 point out, for the information of our local Committee, 

 that, in discussing the possible machinerv' for the 

 regulation of shell-fish areas, Dr. Bulstrode refers to the 

 further valuable work that might be carried out by a 

 vSea-Fisheries Committee organised for scientific research 

 as ours is, and says: " The Officers of the Lancashire ami 

 Western Sea-Fisheries Committee have, under the 

 guidance of the Honorary Director, Professor Herdman, 

 F.R.S., together with Dr. J. Travis Jenkins, Mr. James 

 Johnstone, and Mr. Andrew Scott, made a detailed survey 

 of the shell-fish beds and areas in their district, and of 

 the sewers and drains which discharge in their vicinity. 

 They have also from time to time made valuable 

 bacteriological examinations of the waters and shell-fish 

 in different places, and have conducted experiments as 

 regards the re-laying of shell-fish, which are likely to 

 prove of permanent value both to the shell-fish industry 

 itself and to the public health "' (loc. cit., p. 123). 



This recognition of the value of the Committee's 

 work in the Official Report of the Government Depart- 

 ment directly concerned should encourage and stimulate 

 those who are doing the work, and may justify the 

 Committee in undertaking a larger expenditure on these 

 very necessary investigations. 



Turning now to the last, and perhaps the most 



