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Manchester. After that it was removed to the Public 

 Museum in Liverpool, where for some weeks it occupied 

 a very favourable position in the middle of one of the 

 large galleries, close to the Museum collection of British 

 Fishes ; and there it was seen to great advantage and was 

 apparently much appreciated by the Liverpool public. 

 A special descriptive Guide with many illustrations was 

 prepared in order to put before the public the extent of 

 the Lancashire Sea Fisheries District, the Committee's 

 administrative and scientific organisation, the nature of 

 their work, and some of their results. A number of 

 copies of this Guide were sold during the Liverpool visit. 

 In December the Exhibition was removed to the Art 

 Gallery at Oldham, and about the middle of January it 

 was taken to the Chadwick Museum at Bolton. It is now 

 on the point of being moved to Preston, and arrange- 

 ments have been made for visits thereafter to several of 

 the other Lancashire boroughs. 



This summary-exposition, as our travelling Exhibit 

 may be called, of the application of science to sea-fisheries 

 investigation in our district ought to focus attention upon 

 what has been done during recent years under the auspices 

 of the Lancashire and Western Sea-Fisheries Committee, 

 and should help in educating public opinion as to the 

 claims of such work for recognition and substantial 

 support. 



The delay in receiving any response to the Com- 

 mittee's application to the Treasury for a grant in aid 

 of such work, under the Development Act, has been most 

 disappointing and, from the point of view of the scientific 

 staff, almost disastrous. We are aware that the delay 

 has not been caused at the Treasury, nor by the Develop- 

 ment Commissioners. The pity is that during all this 

 time useful work remains undone for want of funds,- 



