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contact with local administration without causing it to lose much 
of its immediate practical value. It ought to be remembered | 
also that the severance of all research from administration might 
have an unfortunate effect upon the spirit in which statutory 
duties are carried out by depriving it of a progressive outlook 
and an attitude of enquiry. In the case of the local Fishery 
Authorities, the combination of a certain amount of research 
(such as Category 1) with administration has resulted in an 
increase of local interest and efficiency which might be lost, 
if all research were centralised under the control of a Govern- 
ment Department or Central Council. 
On the other hand such research as is included in Category 
(2) need not have any direct relation to administration, and 
much of it might well be regulated by a central department or 
Council of Scientific Research, so long as enlightened views in 
regard to the nature and results of research prevail and the 
laboratory workers are not tethered by red-tape and coerced 
as to methods and duration of work. Some of the more 
academic researches would, no doubt, be suggested by those 
working at the administrative problems under Category (1). 
Some (such as oceanographic and faunistic researches) would 
require to be done at sea from the research steamers alongside 
the administrative work. But that need present no difficulties. 
The determination of salinities and temperatures, for example, 
can easily be combined on the same expedition with experi- 
mental trawling and plankton work. Some of the researches 
under (2) would naturally be carried on at marine biological 
stations, such as the investigation of life-histories and work 
on the living plankton. The rest of the work would be done 
best in University laboratories. There also the results of the 
Oceanographic researches under both (1) and (2) would be 
collated and put into final form for publication. 
For the direction and co-relation of the work as a whole 
a University with its various laboratories, libraries, museums 
