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SECTION C— CONTEMPORARY WORK. 
NOTES ON CONTEMPORARY WORK RELATING TO FISHERIES 
IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES. By Dr T. Wemyss 
Fulton, Secretary for Scientific Investigations. 
In the following account of the scientific fishery work being carried on 
in foreign states, it will be noticed that there are three prominent subjects 
engaging attention; (1) The establishment of hatcheries for sea fish, 
lobsters, &c; (2) the investigation of the action of various modes of 
fishing respecting the capture of immature fish, and the institution of 
means to lessen such capture ; (3) investigations into the reproduction, 
food, and habits of sea fishes. 
A large part of the information has been made available by the receipt 
of fishery and other publications in exchange for the Board's Annual 
Report ; and an important and highly useful fishery library is thus gradu- 
ally being formed. 
I have to thank many foreign fishery authorities for assistance in this 
department; not merely in supplying reports and publications referring to 
their work, but in furnishing, promptly and readily, all information in 
their power on points submitted to them. 
Among these I may mention M. Raveret Wattel, Secretary to the 
Societe d' Acclimitatiou de France ; Dr P. P. C. Hoek, Scientific Super- 
intendent of Dutch Fisheries ; Colonel Marshall McDonald, the Fishery 
Commissioner of the United States ; Captain Drechsel, the Superintendent 
of Danish Fisheries, and the Naturalist Dr Petersen ; Professor Pouchet, 
the Director of the Concarneau Laboratory ; Professor Marion, the 
Director of the Laboratoire d' Endoume, Marseille ; Captain Dannevig, 
the Superintendent of the well-known hatchery at Flodevig; Senor 
Rafael Gutierren Vela, of the Spanish Fisheries Department ; Sir Charles 
Tupper, the High Commissioner for Canada; Mr Nielsen, the Super- 
intendent of the Newfoundland Fisheries ; Professor Giglioli, of Florence ; 
and His Highness Prince Albert of Monaco. Among those at home who 
have been always willing to co-operate I must specially mention Sir Thomas 
F. Brady and the other Inspectors of Irish Fisheries, and Professor 
M'Lntosh, F.R.S. ; also Mr Bourne, the Director of the Marine Biological 
Association's Laboratory at Plymouth ; Mr Olsen, the Secretary of the 
Grimsby Marine Fisheries Society : and Mr J. Wrench Towse, the 
Honorary Secretary to the National Sea Fisheries Protection Association. 
To Mr W. Anderson Smith, Ledaig, I am specially indebted ; both for 
aid in translating foreign reports, and for advice and assistance. 
1. GREAT BRITAIN. 
A most important contribution to fishery science during the year is 
the extensive and elaborate memoir by Professor M'lntosh and Mr E. E. 
Prince, ' On the Development and Life-Histories of the Teleostean 
* Food and other Fishes.' * The observations were made at the Fishery 
Board' Marine Laboratory at St Andrews under the auspices of the 
Board. The authors give the results of their studies of the ovarian 
* Tram. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xxv. part iii. (No. 19), pis. i-xxviii. 
