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But with the view of collecting, examining and 

 co-ordinating snch scientific researches at different 

 centres and of applying them to specific fishery 

 problems, and of making use of the money set free 

 by the termination of the international work and such 

 other funds as H.M. Government can devote to this 

 important national object, it is essential to have a small 

 working body of experts such as was recommended in 

 the Report of the Ichthyological Committee — men who 

 have been, and are, actively and sympathetically in touch 

 both with the various fishing industries and the various 

 methods of scientific research that can be applied to them. 

 As examples of such experts may be taken Prof. Mcintosh 

 and Dr. Fulton, in Scotland ; Mr. W. S. Green and 

 Mr. E. W. L. Holt, in Ireland; and Mr. Walter E. 

 Archer, in London. The academic Zoologists on the 

 Council of the M.B.A. are all eminent men in their 

 own special lines of research, but would, most of them, 

 I hope, be unwilling to lay claim to expert knowledge on 

 fishery problems. 



It is, surely, unfortunate in the interests of science 

 that the Council of the Marine Biological Association 

 should have recently appealed to scientific men in general 

 at the Universities to sign a petition addressed to the 

 Lords Commissioners of H.M. Treasury in support of the 

 work carried on by the International Council and its 

 continuance in the hands of the Marine Biological 

 Association. It is probable that some, at least, of the more 

 or less distinguished Zoologists, Botanists, Geologists, 

 Physiologists, Pathologists, Astronomers, Chemists, 

 Mathematicians and Anthropologists who have lent 

 their names for this purpose have done so with very 

 imperfect knowledge, if any, of the methods and results 

 of the international work, and very possibly in complete 



