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not only of this city or this county, but to the whole of 

 England. (Applause.) 



" The Chancellor read a communication received 

 from Sir Thomas Elliott, Permanent Secretary of the 

 Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, intimating that the 

 Board were pleased to award the University a grant of 

 £200 for the financial year ending March, 1906, in respect 

 of the Zoological work carried on in connection with the 

 fishing industry, and conveying the congratulations of 

 the Board on the completion of the Zoological Museum 

 and Laboratories, which they hoped would be of service 

 ' both in the advance of scientific knowledge and in the 

 solution of many problems of importance to the fishing 

 industry.' 



" Sir Thomas Elliott afterwards spoke. He wished, 

 on behalf of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, to 

 associate himself with all those expressions of goodwill 

 which had fallen from Lord Onslow. They were very 

 grateful to Professor Herdman for the services he had 

 rendered. He was not only a distinguished man of 

 science, but he had done his best to be an apostle of 

 science, and to instil the scientific spirit into those 

 practically engaged in the fishing industry. (Applause.) 

 The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries were deeply 

 grateful to him for the services he had rendered to them 

 on many occasions. In these days it was impossible to 

 administer a department wisely and well without the 

 active co-operation of men of science, and the Board felt 

 that in Professor Herdman they had a man whom they 

 could turn to for advice on all occasions, and who would 

 always be ready to assist them. (Hear, hear.) The 

 Board congratulated the University upon its latest 

 extension, and trusted that the resources now at the 

 disposal of Professor Herdman and his staff would be 



