74 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
Committee may be made here. It was Mr. Fell who, at 
the time of the formation of the Committee, first induced 
me to take an interest in the application of marine 
biology to our local sea-fishing industries. He invited 
me to attend an enquiry which was held in Liverpool in 
1889 for the purpose of taking evidence from fishermen 
and others interested in these fishery industries; and 
on many occasions subsequently, in these early years of 
our work, he consulted with me as to points in connection 
with the distribution and reproduction of fishes and the 
life processes of crustaceans and shell-fish. 
It was, in fact, largely due to Mr. John Fell’s 
support and encouragement that a scientific section of 
the Lancashire sea-fisheries work came to be established, 
and that, in 1892, a Sea-Fisheries Laboratory was 
mstituted in connection with the Zoological Department 
of the University of Liverpool (then University College). 
He opened, with an introductory address, an Exhibition 
of Science as applied to the fisheries which we organised 
in this department of the University in 1897—an 
exhibition the essential part of which was shown during 
the next few years in London and in several of the more 
important towns of the county. Mr. Fell always 
recognised that sea-fisheries investigation forms a 
department of general marine biology, and that sound 
regulation and administration must be founded on the 
results of practical scientific investigation. |Through- 
out the lengthy period that he remained as the valued 
and honoured Chairman of the Joint Committee, 
Mr. Fell’s sympathy and encouragement were constantly 
of the greatest importance in connection with our 
scientific investigations. 
Beginning in a humble way, under Mr. Fell’s 
chairmanship, in 1892, with a small annual report of 

