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specialist, and that is the extraordinary economy which has been practised."
With this Jubilee year, and the stock-taking of the Victorian Era, on comparing the mother with her daughter colonies, and with other nations whose fishing industries are relatively less than our own, it stands out that the British Government only lukewarmly responds to the science requirements of the most important national Sea Fish food question in its broad aspect. Hence the time has arrived, if we are to keep place in the race, when a further impetus might well be given to speed the good efforts in this direction. It behoves moreover that distribution of funds should be so judiciously spread that Universities' heart-burnings be moderated, withal stimulated.
