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SUMMARY AND GENERAL REPORT. 
It is well known to those who have followed the course of 
the Northumberland fishery investigations that we were enabled 
to carry out the trawling and other experiments at sea through 
the generosity of the late Chairman. Although it may be 
granted that much more could have been accomplished if the 
work had been clone on the scale made permissible by the use of 
public funds, our results have shown that it is possible to do 
a great deal by SU ch semi-private effort as that which has 
come to so 'untimely an end. The trawling work of the 
"Stanley "for a large number of years has enabled us to stale 
•the nature of the Northumberland territorial area and of fa 
r-fish life The "Stanley's" gear was presented to me by the 
executors of the late Alderman DetH, and the opportunity was 
offered to me by the Committee to continue the experiments 
% the use of a tug steamer, the "Europe." A series of inter- 
ring experiments was made during the mouths of August 
*d September, the results of which arc given in detail. These 
Nnt to the fact that in spite of the change the investigations 
™ld results which can safely be compared with those of past 
'oars,.and, although little attempt has yet been made to analyse 
the fig„ rcs are such as to justify us in stating that the 
