188 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Sea-Fisheries Exhibition. 



As the Sea-Fisheries Committee desired that Lancashire 

 should be represented in the Yachting and Fisheries Exhi- 

 bition held at the Imperial Institute last summer, Mr. 

 Dawson and I, with the assistance of Mr. Scott, arranged, 

 during the spring, an exhibit which should illustrate both 

 the administrative and the scientific sides of the Com- 

 mittee's work. As it was clearly important that the 

 exhibit should be available for use locally in different parts 

 of Lancashire, three light but substantial pitch pine 

 museum cases, so constructed that they could readily be 

 taken to pieces and packed up for transit by rail, were 

 made for us by Mr. R. Garner, the Superintendent of the 

 Wood- working Department of University College. These 

 three cases (labelled A to C) showed, as arranged at the 

 Imperial Institute, in April : — 



A. Examples of the results obtained from the scientific 

 work in the Fisheries Laboratory. 



B. Samples of the scientific papers and reports and 

 the statistics and other statements as to the fisheries 

 published by the Committee, and of photographs, draw- 

 ings, and lithographic plates illustrating the fishery work 

 of this district. 



C. Specimens of fish taken with various nets, samples 

 of meshes, models of nets and various other fishery 

 implements, gauges, and other illustrations of the work of 

 the Administrative Department. 



These three cases together cover all the varied activities 

 of the Committee's work. In addition our exhibit included 

 samples of nets and trawls, maps, charts, regulations and 

 notices, models of boats, &c, &c. 



The Lancashire exhibit was not at all well placed at 

 the Imperial Institute. In place of being beside the 



