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connection to these sections of last year's Report — remembering 

 that if Great Britain is to continue to hold her high place in 

 the fisheries of North- West Europe it can only be by the provision 

 of higher education and more scientific knowledge for those 

 intending to enter commercial fife in connection with Sea- 

 fisheries, and by arranging for a closer co-operation between 

 the scientific experts and those carrying on the industry. 



It is appropriate that Lancashire, and especially Liverpool, 

 should give a lead to the country in providing such higher 

 scientific sea-fisheries education, and it may be useful to place 

 on record that the Oceanography Department in the University 

 has now made a start with its work and has already enrolled 

 a few students who are engaged in advanced studies. The 

 University has arranged to provide two curricula in connection 

 with this Department, both having special reference to training 

 for fisheries posts, either as investigators or as commercial 

 men. The one leads to a B.Sc. degree in Oceanography and 

 Fisheries Science, the other to the degree of Bachelor in 

 Commercial Science with special reference to a business or 

 administrative career in connection with the fishing industries. 

 As these are probably the first University curricula definitely 

 arranged for degrees in Fisheries Science in this country, it 

 may be well to state here the following further details : — Both 

 are three years' curricula, with the possibility of a fourth year 

 for those who have the time and ability to take an Honours 

 degree*. The course for the degree of B.Sc. consists in the 

 first year of the preliminary sciences — Chemistry, Physics and 

 Biology, which are fundamental to all further work in Science 

 or the applications of science to industry. Then follows the 

 " Intermediate " examination, and after that the student has 

 two years of further training in selected branches of Science 

 leading up to the " Final " examination. In the first of these 



* For full details and regulations see the Calendar of the University of 

 Liverpool. 



