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results we had arrived at, formed " the practical evidence 

 that Fisheries Experts from abroad especially desire to see 

 when they come for information in regard to local fisheries 

 and the conditions under which they are carried on." A 

 year after that, last February, I am glad to say we had a 

 visit from Dr. P. P. C. Hoek, Fisheries Scientific Adviser 

 in Holland, who was sent by his government to confer 

 with Prof. Boyce and myself as to our work on diseased 

 conditions of Oysters, and to see our specimens and 

 methods of investigation. Dr. Hoek stayed for some 

 time working in our laboratories, and was pleased to 

 express the opinion that he had thereby been saved a 

 good deal of valuable time by getting as rapidly as possible 

 into touch with the details of our work, so as to be able 

 to carry on investigations in Holland on similar lines. 

 "We have also had an interesting visit from Dr. Johan 

 Hjort, Scientific Adviser on Fisheries to the Norwegian 

 government. We have had some correspondence with 

 Dr. Hjorfc since, and the Committee has been able to help 

 him in his work by sending him a shank trawl such as 

 we think will be best suited for the local conditions off 

 the south coast of Norway, where, at depths of over 

 60 fathoms Dr. Hjort has found considerable quanties of 

 Pandalus borealis, a large prawn, which he thinks might 

 be profitably fished. 



During the summer I went to America, and took the 

 opportunity of seeing all I could of various kinds of 

 Fisheries Institutions, and of talking to fisheries authori- 

 ties both in Canada and the United States. I visited 

 hatcheries on the east coast of Canada, saw the enormous 

 numbers of salmon in the rivers of British Columbia on 

 the west coast, and also met Prof. Prince, the Commis- 

 sioner of Fisheries for the Dominion, as well as other 

 Canadian scientific men. 



