74 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
recommended that the College should be established in 
Aberdeen in definite and organic connection with the University. 
The avowed object is naturally to promote the Scottish 
Fishery industries, but the wider application of their views 1s 
recognised both in relation to research and education. They 
recommend that ‘‘ Hach [Government] Department should 
have power to enter into arrangements with any Educational 
Institution whereby facilities should be afforded to such 
Institution for Higher Scientific Education in the laboratories 
and by the staff of the Department”; and that “* Research 
and Hducation should proceed in matters affecting the pre- 
servation and development of the fisheries, the distribution, 
growth, and habits of fish, the catching, curing, and preserving 
of fish (including refrigeration and cold storage), the utilisation 
of fish, including by-products, and the marketing and transport 
of fish, including refrigeration.”” Moreover, they emphasise the 
point that “The combining of Fishery Research with the 
practical conduct of the Industry is of such vital importance 
that centralisation of Fishery Research in London could not 
be accepted”—a statement that may possibly require some 
expansion and definition before it can be universally accepted. 
There are many other matters dealt with in the Memoran- 
dum in relation to fishery administration and control, both im 
Scotland and in the United Kingdom generally, which do not 
concern us at the moment; but the final statement that ““ The 
Association are convinced that if the schemes for Education 
and Research as outlined above are carried out, the Scottish 
Fishing Industry will continue to hold its high place among 
the nations of Europe” must not be allowed to apply to 
Scotland only. The quotations I have given in regard to the 
value of research and education to the further development 
of the fishing industries are of general application and should 
receive careful consideration from every responsible and 
enlightened Sea-Fisheries Authority. 
