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Report on the Investigations carried on in 1892 
in connection with the LANCASHIRE SHA-FISHERIES 
Laporatory at University College, Liverpool. 
By Professor W. A. Herpman, D.Sc., F.R.S. 
With Plates VIITI.—XI. 
[Read March 10th, 1893. ] 
INTRODUCTION. 
In December, 1891, I was invited by the Technical 
Instruction Committee of the Lancashire County Council 
to submit to them a scheme for the instruction of the 
Fishermen of the neighbourhood in Biological matters 
having a bearing upon the fishing industries. In mem- 
oranda which I sent to that Committee in Dec., 1891, 
and Jan., 1892, I pointed out that lectures on the food, 
reproduction, and life history of food fishes, illustrated by 
lantern slides, specimens, and microscopic preparations, 
could be given at different centres; but that of still 
creater value to the fisheries of the district would be the 
establishment of a small laboratory in which the investi- 
gation of biological problems involved in the fisheries 
could be carried on by competent observers; and that the 
results of the work done in this laboratory, and in similar 
laboratories elsewhere—in fact the additions to our exact 
knowledge of fishery matters during the year—might be 
communicated to the Fishermen, under the auspices of 
the Technical Instruction Committee, in the form of a 
few lectures annually. 
After some further correspondence and the elaboration 
of details my proposed scheme was adopted, and the first 
course of lectures was carried on, in the summer of 1892, 
as arranged by Myr. Bennion, Director of Technical 
Instruction; while the matter of the laboratory and the 
