SEA-FISHERIES LABORATORY. | 
Tn response to a recent request for a Memorandum designed 
to give an outline of the scope and nature of sea-fisheries 
research, and its relation to administration, as the result of 
our experience in this district, the following paragraphs have 
been drawn up in consultation with Dr. Johnstone, to whom 
I am indebted for many of the examples. It may be useful to 
place these views on record at this time when an increase in 
fisheries research is keenly desired and strongly advocated, 
and when schemes for the promotion of such work are being 
freely discussed in many quarters. After reading and carefully 
considering several such schemes I am led to the conclusion 
that there are good points in all, that they need not be mutually 
exclusive, but might, in part at least, be usefully combined. 
After all, men are more important than measures. Especially 
im such a growing ever-changing business as sea-fisheries 
research and oceanography it is more important to have the 
right men at work directing the progress and co-ordination of 
the investigations than to insist on having from the first an 
ideally perfect scheme. 
Another point that seems clear is that all possible use 
should be made of existing institutions before running any 
risk of duplicating laboratories, marine stations, equipment, 
~men and their efforts. 
MEMORANDUM ON FISHERIES RESEARCH. 
Sea-Fisheries Research is of a most varied nature embracing, 
as it does, the subject matter of different sciences (Biology, 
Chemistry and Physics), and requiring in some cases the 
co-operation of several kinds of scientific men. This indicates 
at once the conclusion that much of it can best be carried out 
at institutions of University rank, where laboratories and 
libraries of the various sciences are provided and where many 
scientific experts are available for consultation. 
