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research, and, if necessary, other bodies concerned, the 

 right to nominate one or more members of Council. 



It must be pointed out that although this may 

 seem to be offering an opportunity to Sea-Fishery 

 Committees of participating in the regulation and 

 administration of Sea-Fisheries research under their 

 scheme, it is not doing so in any real sense or 

 on an adequate scale. The Council of the M.B.A. consists 

 of about 38 members (including the President and Vice- 

 Presidents, who have presumably a right to sit on 

 Council), so that unless a considerable number of represen- 

 tatives of, say, the Government department on the one 

 hand and the Local Sea-Fisheries Authorities on the other, 

 were added, so that 9.11 elements were fairly balanced, no 

 real power would be given. But such a greatly enlarged 

 Council would be unwieldy and impracticable; in fact, 

 the Council of the M.B.A. , as it stands, is too large a 

 body, besides being unsuitable in other respects, for such 

 specialised work as is contemplated. 



The Marine Biological Association is a distinguished 

 Scientific Institution, one of the primary purposes 

 of which is the promotion of research in pure 

 science and the higher education of young Zoologists 

 from the Universities. Academically it holds a high 

 position and its educational value in pure science might 

 be of national importance. It is on those lines that, in 

 the opinion of some of its own members and loj^xl 

 supporters, it ought to develop rather than in connection 

 with the fishing industries. As a scientific and educa- 

 tional institution it is worthy of all possible encourage- 

 ment and support, and it is to be hoped that ILM. 

 Government will give a liberal subsidy to the Plymouth 

 laboratory and other similar institutions for purposes of 

 research in pure science. 



