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their commencement in the beginning of January 1884, he 

 took so deep an interest. Even to the last he kept himself 

 acquainted with their progress, and though, when he died in 

 1887, the systematic work of the " Garland " had just begun, he 

 saw how necessary it was to test thoroughly and check previous 

 observations. Indeed, when in 1884 any decided view was 

 expressed, he was wont to add the caution " Remember others 

 will follow, criticise and check every step taken." Yet, perhaps, 

 his acutely sensitive mind, not to allude to his well-known 

 sympathy with the liners, whose hardy, daring ways aroused 

 his respect, and to whose appeals he ever cordially responded, 

 might have felt a shade of disappointment at a result so 

 different from the oft repeated views and wide-spread opinions 

 of the fishing-community and the public. 



Gatty Marine Laboratory, 

 St Andrews. 

 15 November, 1898. 



