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Several Fishery Museums have also have established. 
Since 1882 the Society has issued a quarterly magazine, 
Norsk Fiskeritidende (Norwegian Fisheries Magazine). 
The Government has established and provides for the 
maintenance of a fisheries laboratory, with a school of in- 
struction attached, ineBergen, and a fisheries school in 
Nordland. A biological institute has also been established 
in Bergen, chiefly with the view of facilitating investiga- 
tions of benefit to the fisheries. Foreign scientists have 
admission to this institute. 
Fisheries exhibitions are frequently held in the country. 
An import duty is placed upon salt, which goes to the 
treasury and amounts annually to from $80,000 to $120,- 
000. As most of the salt imported is consumed in the ser- 
vice of the fisheries, and as no drawback is allowed on ex- 
port, the greater part of this burden falls upon the fishing 
occupation. 
Kr. LEHMKUHL, 
Chairman of Society for Promotion of Norwegian Fisheries, Bergen, Norway. 
Capt. CoLttins—I think, Mr. President, there are some 
sentences in this paper that deserve attention, and I would 
be glad to hear an expression. from the gentlemen present 
concerning them. You will notice that a statement is made 
here that in that country there are maintained several 
fishery museums, and the thought has occurred to me 
whether it would not be a good thing for the State Com- 
missioners—those men who are devoting the best years and 
the best efforts of their lives to promoting the advance and 
improvement of the fisheries and the maintenance of fish 
in our streams and lakes—to take some measures to col- 
lect, in a systematic way, such matter as they can which 
might in time constitute a collection worthy of the name 
of a museum, which would be almost invaluable for refer- 
ence to their successors. 
All of you know, of course, that in Washington there 
has been gathered a large collection of this character, but 
