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fail, but they ought to be largely supplemented. The 

 District Committees have been urging their claims for a 

 grant from the Treasury for at least five years, and have 

 received many assurances of sympathy and of ultimate 

 substantial help. 



The present juncture seems thus to afford an 

 opportunity, such as has not previously occurred, of 

 formulating a comprehensive scheme which will deal with 

 all parts of the coast and unite all interests. Anything 

 approaching to a monopoly in science is most objection- 

 able. 'There cannot be a monopoly in work, so there ought 

 to be none in State recognition and support. The 

 North Sea investigations are welcome additions to science, 

 the work of the Marine Biological Association is worthy 

 of all the support that can be given both by scientific men 

 and by the Government, but neither of these organisations 

 covers the whole ground, and any scheme which does not 

 embrace the three seas of England and utilise to the full 

 the various laboratories and Fisheries Authorities around 

 the coast, more or less on the lines of the Ichthyological 

 Committee's Report, will fail to solve the present problem 

 of Fisheries research in Great Britain. 



