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fully utilised in the future, and that the results would be 

 for the benefit of the fishing industry of the country. 

 (Applause.) 



" Mr. E. K. Muspkatt, President of the Council, 

 moved a vote of thanks to Lord Onslow. 



" Sir John Brlnner, M.P., in seconding, referred 

 to the benefits to be derived from the application of science 

 to industry and commerce, and cited an instance where 

 by an expenditure of £125 a quantity of mussels had 

 been transplanted from an unfavourable to a favourable 

 locality, with the result that the fishermen of the latter 

 district had made £2,000 out of the mussel beds. 



" The Chancellor then accompanied Lord Onslow 

 to the new Museum and Laboratories, the doors of which 

 the distinguished visitor formally opened. After the 

 various parts of the building had been inspected, a large 

 company assembled in the Zoology lecture theatre, under 

 the presidency of Lord Derby, who called upon the 

 Professor of the department. 



" Professor Herdman then briefly explained the 

 plan of the new buildings and the purposes to which they 

 would be put, and concluded by introducing Sir John 

 Murray, after describing the services which that eminent 

 oceanographer had rendered to modern science. 



" Sir John Murray then addressed the assembly 

 upon ' Oceanography.' After speaking of some of the 

 known facts about the ocean ascertained through the 

 medium of oceanography, Sir John said he understood 

 they had as yet no professorship of geology in connection 

 with their University. In the remains of the organisms 

 found now at the bottom of the ocean there was a 

 tremendous field to be exploited by 11k' young and 

 vigorous scientific men of the future, and he asked why 

 in this centre of Liverpool should they not have in 



