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the fisheries work to help Mr. Scott and myself. It was 

 soon found that we could usefully employ the whole of 

 Mercer's time in this way, and later in the year he was 

 definitely taken over into the Committee's service. During 

 most of the summer and autumn he worked under Mr. 

 Scott in arranging the Fisheries Exhibition in Liverpool, 

 and since October he has acted as attendant in charge of 

 that exhibition, and in doing any other work required in 

 connection with the collections, and helping generally in 

 the Fisheries Laboratory. 



Mr. Scott went into residence at the Piel Hatchery on 

 December 1st, and his place in the Liverpool Fisheries 

 Laboratory has been filled by the appointment of Mr. 

 James Johnstone, from the Royal College of Science, 

 South Kensington, who entered upon his duties early in 

 the present month (January, 1898). 



The course of Sea-Fisheries lectures delivered in Liver- 

 pool last spring by Mr. Dawson, Mr. Ascroft, Mr. Scott, 

 Mr. Thompson, Professor Boyce, and myself went off 

 successfully, and attracted a good deal of interest. Alder- 

 man Grindley attended the last lecture, and at the 

 conclusion of the course spoke in the name of the 

 Lancashire Sea -Fisheries Committee. The hope was 

 expressed by some of the audience and by the Press that 

 the course would be repeated in other parts of the district, 

 and that further lectures would be given in Liverpool. 

 Our Exhibition and Fisheries Collections at the College 

 now give us means of illustrating fishery courses, or of 

 arranging demonstrations on fishery subjects, such as can 

 exist in very few, if any, other centres in the country. 



In January 1896, at the end of the Introduction to the 

 Report for 1895, in urging the formation of the Fisheries 

 Museum, which we now have, I pointed out that such 

 collections, showing ths work w T e were doing and the 



