Excerpt from Report for 1892 on the Lancashire Sea-Fisheries Laboratory at University College, Liverpool IN December, 1891, I was invited by the Technical Instruction Committee of the Lancashire County Council to submit to them a scheme for the instruction of the Fishermen of the neighbourhood in Biological matters having a bearing upon the fishing industries. In mem oranda which I sent to that Committee in Dec., 1891, and J 1892, I pointed out that lectures on the food, reproduction, and life history of food fishes, illustrated by lantern slides, specimens, and microscopic preparations, could be given at different centres; but that of still greater value to the fisheries of the district would be the establishment of a small laboratory in which the investi gation of biological problems involved in the fisheries could be carried on by competent observers and that the results of the work done in this laboratory, and in similar laboratories elsewhere - in fact the additions to our exact knowledge of fishery matters during the year - might be communicated to the Fishermen, under the auspices of the Technical Instruction Committee, in the form of a few lectures annually. After some further correspondence and the elaboration of details my proposed scheme was adopted, and the first course of lectures was carried on, in the summer of 1892, as arranged by Mr. Bennion, Director of Technical Instruction; while the matter of the laboratory and theinvestigations was handed over to be, dealt with by the Lancashire sea-fisheries Committee. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.