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specialist, and that is the extraordinary economy which has 

 been practised." 



With this Jubilee year, and the stock-taking of the Victorian 

 Era, on comparing the mother with her daughter colonies, and 

 with other nations whose fishing industries are relatively less 

 than our own, it stands out that the British Government only 

 lukewarmly responds to the science requirements of the most 

 important national Sea Fish food question in its broad aspect. 

 Hence the time has arrived, if we are to keep place in the race, 

 when a further impetus might well be given to speed the good 

 efforts in this direction. It behoves moreover that distribution 

 of funds should be so judiciously spread that Universities' heart- 

 burnings be moderated, withal stimulated. 



