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(1) THE earlier course of Buckland Lectures is devoted to the oyster, a full investigation of which was subsidized for some years, commencing in 1919, by the Empire Marketing Board acting through the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. There was at that time an immense mortality amongst the oysters of the east coast of England, and it was suggested, rather hysterically, that this was due to the dumping of trinitrotoluene in that region—an obvious impossibility. The real cause has never been explained, but the researches of Prof. J. H. Orton and the information obtained by him and here presented will save a second such waste of public money.
(1) Oyster Biology and Oyster Culture:
being the Buckland Lectures for 1935. By Prof. J. H. Orton. Pp. 211. (London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1937.) 5s. net.
(2) The Nation's Sea-Fish Supply:
being the Buckland Lectures for 1936. By E. Ford. Pp. 112 + 4 plates. (London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1937.) 3s. 6d. net.
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(1) Oyster Biology and Oyster Culture: (2) The Nation's Sea-Fish Supply. Nature 140, 952 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140952a0
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