110 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



September, 1902. The Report of the Committee, which 

 was issued as a Parliamentary paper about the end of the 

 year, recommended a comprehensive National Scheme of 

 investigation centring, as regards England, in the 

 Government Department, co-relating and uniting the 

 energies of the various administrative and investigating 

 bodies, and giving the necessary support to a marine 

 laboratory on each of the three coasts. 



Legislative action upon these various recommen- 

 dations was, however, postponed, because the Govern- 

 ment had meanwhile become engaged to participate 

 lor a period of years in the International scheme 

 of investigations ; but the Report of the Ichthyological 

 Committee was received with marked approval by most, 

 if not all, of the Sea-Fisheries Authorities of England and 

 Wales ; and in answer to representations made at 

 successive annual statutory meetings, the President of 

 the Board (formerly of Trade, latterly of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries), in the chair, has stated on the various occasions 

 that at the conclusion of the limited period for which 

 the International work had been guaranteed, the question 

 of a National Scheme would be considered, and the claims 

 of the Local Sea-Fisheries Districts would then receive 

 attention from the Government. 



For example, Earl Carrington, the present 

 President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 

 at the meeting in the House of Lords on 14th June, 

 1906, after expressing his sympathy, stated that 

 he " would leave no stone unturned " in trying to 

 get from the Treasury some money for such a National 

 Scheme as was desired, and he ended by appealing to the 

 Local Authorities present to give him all the support in 

 their power when the time came [see Blue-book, Cd. 3063, 

 p. 10]. Within the next few weeks is clearly the 



