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  These 
  cover 
  the 
  period 
  from 
  1 
  871 
  to 
  1879. 
  Many 
  papers 
  

   relating 
  to 
  the 
  work 
  have 
  been 
  published 
  elsewhere. 
  

  

  Thanking 
  your 
  Excellency, 
  and 
  you, 
  my 
  lords 
  and 
  

   gentlemen, 
  for 
  your 
  kind 
  attention, 
  I 
  will 
  close 
  this 
  neces- 
  

   sarily 
  long 
  address 
  with 
  the 
  expression 
  of 
  the 
  hope 
  that 
  

   the 
  fisheries 
  of 
  Europe 
  may 
  derive 
  from 
  this 
  great 
  Exhibi- 
  

   tion 
  a 
  tithe 
  of 
  the 
  advantages 
  which 
  are 
  certain 
  to 
  result 
  

   from 
  it 
  to 
  the 
  fisheries 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States. 
  

  

  DISCUSSION. 
  

  

  The 
  Chairman 
  called 
  on 
  Mr. 
  R. 
  Edward 
  Earll 
  to 
  be 
  good 
  

   enough 
  to 
  explain 
  the 
  diagrams 
  and 
  pictures 
  upon 
  the 
  wall. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  EARLL 
  said 
  he 
  had 
  enjoyed 
  most 
  thoroughly 
  listen- 
  

   ing 
  to 
  Professor 
  Goode's 
  Paper, 
  but 
  national 
  modesty 
  would 
  

   prevent 
  his 
  saying 
  anything 
  with 
  regard 
  to 
  it, 
  and 
  he 
  

   would 
  proceed 
  to 
  give 
  a 
  few 
  details 
  of 
  the 
  working 
  of 
  

   the 
  Commission 
  during 
  recent 
  years. 
  They 
  had 
  heard 
  

   from 
  this 
  Paper, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  from 
  Professor 
  Huxley, 
  of 
  the 
  

   enormous 
  quantity 
  of 
  fish 
  consumed 
  as 
  food 
  by 
  other 
  

   fishes 
  in 
  the 
  sea 
  and 
  rivers, 
  and 
  it 
  therefore 
  became 
  neces- 
  

   sary, 
  in 
  order 
  that 
  fish 
  culture 
  should 
  become 
  practicable, 
  

   and 
  in 
  any 
  way 
  increase 
  the 
  supply 
  of 
  fish 
  in 
  a 
  country, 
  

   that 
  there 
  should 
  not 
  only 
  be 
  thousands 
  but 
  millions 
  of 
  

   fish 
  hatched 
  annually. 
  The 
  attention 
  of 
  the 
  Commission 
  

   had 
  therefore 
  been 
  turned 
  recently 
  towards 
  improving 
  the 
  

   apparatus, 
  to 
  secure 
  greater 
  economy 
  of 
  space 
  and 
  concen- 
  

   tration 
  of 
  work, 
  and 
  also 
  towards 
  devising 
  more 
  effective 
  

   methods 
  of 
  distribution. 
  Each 
  specialist 
  had 
  taken 
  up 
  a 
  

   special 
  line 
  of 
  work, 
  and 
  had 
  carried 
  on 
  his 
  investigations 
  

   until 
  he 
  had 
  either 
  introduced 
  some 
  new 
  form 
  of 
  apparatus 
  

   which 
  had 
  enabled 
  him 
  to 
  accomplish 
  better 
  results, 
  or 
  had 
  

   invented 
  some 
  form 
  of 
  apparatus 
  for 
  transporting 
  fry 
  

  

  