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years for which other nations were pledged, but at the 

 same time it was made clear to the International Council 

 that our Government did not contemplate any further 

 continuance of the work. (" The delegates are requested 

 to impress upon their foreign colleagues that it is not the 

 intention of His Majesty's Government to participate in 

 the investigations on the present footing after 22nd July, 

 1907."— Blue-book Cd. 3165, p. 9). 



The cost has been great— the British share of 

 the total expense amounted to about £70,000, or £14,000 

 per annum, of which £5,500 was allotted to work done off 

 the Scottish Coasts and £5,500 to that on the East and 

 South Coasts of England — the remainder being required 

 for expenses of administration and the central organisa- 

 tion. No part of the money was expended on Ireland, 

 nor on the Western Coasts of England and Wales. The 

 Scottish portion of the work, it was arranged, should be 

 carried out by the officials of the Fishery Board 

 for Scotland under the Scottish Office ; and the 

 English portion by the Marine Biological Association, a 

 well-known scientific body controlled by a council of 

 between 30 and 40 members, under the presidency of 

 Professor Ray Lankester, and having a large laboratory 

 and headquarters at Plymouth, with a smaller branch 

 establishment at Lowestoft for the special purposes of the 

 International work. 



The Local Sea-Fisheries Committees around the coasts 

 of England had no part in the work, nor had the Govern- 

 ment Department chiefly concerned in the subject (the 

 Board of Agriculture and Fisheries). 



The International inves ligations have been controlled 

 by a Council (" Conseil Permanent International pour 

 TExploration de la Mer "), the Executive of which is a 

 " Bureau," having its seat at Copenhagen and its Central 



