Dedication. 
To 
JOHN FI':LL, Esc.., J. P. and D.L., 
Chairman oi- the Lancashirk Sea-Fisiieries Commhtee. 
Bear Mr. Fell, 
We think it luost appropriate, and it is a pleasure to 7ts, that 
this First Lancashire Sea-Fisheries Memoir should be dedicated to you, the 
First Chainiian of the Committee under whose auspices a large proportion of 
this and other scientific ivork on Fisheries' questions has been carried on. 
It is widely knoivn in Lancashire that the forination of our Local 
Sea-Fisheries Committee was largely due to your personal energy and influence, 
and that to your ivise guidance during the first decade of its existence is due 
in great measure the success of its administration, and its present commanding 
position. But it may be tvell to point out, ivhat is not so generally known, 
that from the first you recognised that the Sea-Fisheries form a department of 
general Marine Biology, and that sound legislation and administration must be 
founded on the results of scientific and other correct practical investigations. 
IV. A. Herdman. 
R. Boyce. 
University College, Liverpool, 
July, 1S99. 
