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THIS is a reprint of a lecture delivered in the Chadwick Museum, apparently under the auspices of the Bolton Corporation. It is full of obvious inaccuracies, is hopelessly out of date, and contains on nearly every page cheap sneers at “pure science” and “the scientists,” as opposed to the “business” and “practical men.” There is a good deal about “Dame Nature” and “Old Ocean,” and “the Great Author of the Universe,” with whom the author of the book seems to be on curiously confidential terms. This is a work which, if taken seriously, is calculated, we fear, to do much harm—not to the County Council against whose labours it is directed, but to the fishermen in whose interests it professes to be written—by stirring up bad feeling, class prejudices, and opposition to constituted authority.
The Lancashire Sea Fisheries.
By Charles L. Jackson, &c. Pp. viii + 85. (Manchester: Heywood and Son, 1899.)
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The Lancashire Sea Fisheries. Nature 60, 341 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060341b0
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