International Fisheries Exhibition 
LONDON, 1883. 
Conference on Thursday, July 5, 1883. 
Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, M.P., in the Chair. 
THE SWEDISH FISHERIES. 
The Chairman, in opening the proceedings, said the 
object of this meeting was to have the pleasure of listening 
to Papers read by the delegates of foreign countries, who 
had kindly come to attend this International Exhibition, 
an Exhibition which had attracted the attention not merely 
of the inhabitants of this country, but of those of nearly all 
the nations of the civilised world. He had hoped that the 
chair to-day would have been taken by Lord Granville ; it 
was unfortunately impossible for him to be present as he 
had wished, but he had his permission to state — as it was 
hardly necessary for him to state — that he took the 
greatest interest in this Exhibition, and considered it to 
be of very great importance. Lord Granville had great 
experience on these subjects, having been one of the 
Commissioners of the great Exhibition of 1851, when he 
believed it was universally recognised that there was 
hardly any one to whose exertions the success of that 
Exhibition was more due, Lord Granville being at that 
time Vice President of the Board of Trade, and taking very 
great interest in all questions connected with that depart- 
ment. This Exhibition was not a general, but a special 
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