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WE are gratified to see the very thorough way in which the management of the Fisheries Exhibition are endeavouring to carry out their plans. It is evident that the scientific aspects of the wide and important subject will have a fair amount of attention; and we are glad to think that in this direction advice has been sought in the right quarter. In the Exhibition itself those interested in the science of the subject will find much to attract them. Last week (p. 156 we gave a list of subjects which have been settled for conferences, and among those who have consented to read papers, we find such names as Professor Huxley on Fish Diseases, Professor Ray Lankester on the Scientific Results of the Exhibition, Professor Brown Goode on the Fisheries of the United States, Professor Hubrecht on Oyster Culture and Fisheries, Sir Henry Thompson on Fish as Food, Dr. F. Day on the Food of Fishes, Mr. R. H. Scott on Storm Warnings. Further, we are glad to see that a series of handbooks has been arranged for on subjects cognate to the Exhibition. Among them are a few by men of scientific standing, and likely to be of real scientific importance; we hope it may not yet be too late to secure the preparation of a few more handbooks or reports of a similar character. Among the handbooks arranged for, six will be published this month, and the remainder in July. Those of special interest to science are, “The Life History of Fishes,” by Prof. H. N. Moseley; “Fish Culture” and “Indian Fish and Fishing,” by Dr. Francis Day; “Food Fishes,” by Mr. G. B. Howes; “Marine and Freshwater Fishes of the British Isles” by Mr. Saville Kent; “Curious Sea Creatures” by Mr. Henry Lee.
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The Fisheries Exhibition . Nature 28, 176–177 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028176a0
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