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randa’’ throughout the year, and of this Report—has 
been taken up with the removal of the travelling Fisheries 
Exhibition from town to town. The packing and unpack- 
ing of specimens, the renewal of labels, &c., takes up a 
good deal of the time both of Mr. Johnstone and also of 
the laboratory boy—for the first half of the year Thomas | 
Mercer, now William Raw. 
The Exhibition, it will be remembered, was opened by 
Mr. Fell in Liverpool in October, 1897, and has now been 
exhibited at the following institutions in Lancashire :— 
University College, Liverpool, from Oct., 1897, to March, 
1898 ; Royal Museum, Peel Park, Salford, from March, 
1898, to Oct., 1898; Free Public Museum, Preston, from 
Oct., 1898, to April, 1899 ; Chadwick Museum, Bolton, 
from May, 1899, to Oct., 1899; and is now at University 
College, Liverpool, from Oct., 1899, to March, 1900. 
Mr. Mullen has reported that while the exhibition was 
at Salford it was visited by 120,000 persons, Mr. Bramwell 
has estimated that during the six months at Preston it 
was visited by, on an average, 500 persons daily, say 75,000 
in all, while Mr. Midgley writes to me—‘‘ During the time 
of its exhibition in Bolton it has been visited by upwards 
of 50,000 people, and no doubt some in the district have 
been led to take a deeper interest in the subject of our food 
supply, and in the work of the County Council in respect 
to fish-culture than previously.’”’ The Exhibition is at 
present in Liverpool being re-fitted and re-arranged and 
re-labelled. Early in spring it will be removed to the 
- Gamble Institute, St. Helens, where it will remain for six 
months; after that it is promised to Warrington; South- 
port will, I believe, apply for it, and visits to Barrow and 
other places have been suggested. 
I am disappointed that the scheme for Fisheries Scholar- 
ships and studentships, which was outlined in the last 
