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used secondarily, and so as not to interfere with the 

 primary object, for two other purposes, viz. : — 



"1st — For teaching the practical details of hatching and 

 rearing to selected fishermen from different parts of the 

 district, who might be brought in small parties at the 

 proper season and have their expenses paid. A visit to 

 Piel would probably be much more instructive after one had 

 heard a lecture or two on the eggs, reproduction, fertiliza- 

 tion, and development of fishes ; and, as all others matters 

 connected with the fisheries can be much more efficiently 

 and conveniently taught at University College, Liverpool, 

 where there are the laboratories and collections, it would 

 be better for such fishermen to visit Piel after attending a 

 course at Liverpool. The Piel Institution ought also to 

 be available for the instruction in practical hatching of an 

 occasional young man who is training himself with the 

 view of filling some fishery post, such as superintendent 

 of a district, or Scientific Fisheries Assistant in charge of 

 a hatchery. Such a man ought first to go, as a student, 

 through a regular course of zoology at a University labora- 

 tory, and then a prolonged visit to Piel during a hatching 

 season, ought to be of the greatest benefit to him. 



" 2nd. — The other object which I should like to see 

 fostered at Piel, so far as is compatible with the hatching 

 work, is the encouragement of research by independent 

 biologists, such as the members of the Liverpool Biological 

 Society. Our knowledge of fishery matters owes much 

 to the investigations of such men in the past, and I hope 

 will owe still more in the future. I do not doubt that 

 any small expense the Committee may be put to in 

 giving facilities to professional zoologists for pursuing 

 their investigations at Piel will be well-spent money, and 

 will bring in a good return in the form of increased 



