106 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Extension Scheme. The course was on " Our Edible 

 Sea-Fish and Sea-Fisheries," and the lectures were 

 delivered in the Zoology Theatre of University College 

 on Monday evenings, commencing May 6th. The course 

 was well attended, and the audience expressed much 

 interest in the subject, many of them staying on at the 

 conclusion of each lecture to examine the microscopic and 

 other specimens and to ask questions. These lectures 

 were not intended for, and were not attended by, fishermen 

 alone, but were open to the general public ; and I am 

 convinced that it is fully as important for the future of 

 Fisheries investigation and improvement and of just 

 legislation in regard to the fisheries, that the general 

 public should have opportunities of learning the truth in 

 regard to the habits and life-histories of food fishes, and 

 the inter-relations of animals in the sea, as it is that the 

 fisherman himself should be instructed in such matters. 



In addition to such public lectures, there is another 

 method by which an educated public opinion upon Fishery 

 questions can be formed, and that is by the establishment 

 in each district of a technical museum or collection 

 illustrating the local fisheries, the spawn and other stages 

 in the life-history of the various fishes, their foods, their 

 parasites, their diseases, and so on. Such a collection 

 could now readily be formed, with very slight additional 

 expenditure, at University College, in connection with 

 the Fisheries Laboratory, and would then be available 

 for consultation by fishermen, fishmongers, and all others 

 concerned. It would be of constant use to ourselves, 

 for comparison, in our fishery work ; it ought to be of 

 value to Fisheries inspectors and superintendents and 

 to members of Sea-Fisheries Committees both in this 

 neighbourhood and from other parts of the country ; and 

 it is the practical evidence that Fisheries experts from 



