54 REPORT ON OYSTER CULTURE, &C. 



Ten times that amount would find a ready market at good 

 prices in England and France. 



Comparatively insignificant as the subject may appear, yet we 

 beg to submit to your Excellency, that the successful promotion 

 of the oyster fisheries of Ireland would be likely to be productive 

 of very important advantages to the coast population. 



Besides affording remunerative occupation, not likely to inter- 

 fere with other employment, it might also be the means in many 

 instances of enabling them to procure the appliances for pursuing 

 sea fishing, and thus tend to promote that important but neglected 

 and decaying industry. 



We feel bound to express our obligation to the Government of 

 His Majesty the Emperor of the French, especially to M. De 

 Champeaux, and the officers under his department, and to M. Coste, 

 for the great aid rendered us during our investigation in France. 

 To the latter our thanks are particularly due for the valuable 

 returns and other important information forwarded to us sub- 

 sequently. 



We have also to acknowledge the valuable co-operation of the 

 Admiralty for the use of Her Majesty's steam Yacht Vivid, for 

 proceeding round the coast of Ireland — an expedition most 

 satisfactorily performed, owing to the very efficient assistance of 

 Commander Sulivan, and for the directions given to the Coast- 

 guard of the kingdom to carry out our instructions for ascertaining 

 the temperature of the sea, an order most admirably executed. 



We should also add that the scientific investigations so impor- 

 tant in their character, entrusted to Professors Hennessy and Sulli- 

 van, have been most ably executed. 



All which we respectfully certify to your Excellency under our 

 hands. 



Dated in London, June 22, 1870. 



JOHN ALOYSIUS BLARE. 



FRANCIS FRANCIS. 



GEORGE W. HART. 



THOMAS FRANCIS BRADY. 



