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Crustacea, and I believe that a Biological Station, 

 established at Puri, would be in the highway of great 

 discoveries. 



To speak, finally, of the economic possibilities of 

 this coast, so rich in certain kinds of marine produce 

 and in firewood : I should say that if the regulations 

 of the salt-excise could be modified, and if capital on 

 a liberal scale were forthcoming, it would furnish 

 inexhaustible supplies of dried and smoked fish, fish- 

 oil, isinglass and gelatine for the world in general, and 

 of shark's fins for the China market in particular. 



