Fisheries Exhibition Literature Vol Iv Author:HUXLEY General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1884 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: ADDENDUM. Since the reading of the foregoing Paper I have thought it desirable to take this opportunity of removing one or two misconceptions which appear to have arisen as to the scope of the Society whose formation I have ventured to advocate, and especially on the point whether such a Society would necessarily interfere with the work and interests of the " National Fish Culture Association," or of any other body already formed to take up any particular branch of the great question of the Fisheries. The observation of Dr. Day -- which (so far as it relates to Mr. Huxley), did not reach my ears during the discussion -- that "both Professor Huxley and Mr. Fryer must have taken their views from the Prospectus of the National Fish Culture Association," is sufficiently disposed of, so far as Mr. Huxley is concerned, by the fact that, (as mentioned by Mr. Huxley in his Inaugural Address which I quoted, and with which Dr. Day was presumably acquainted, either as a hearer or as a reader,) the idea of " an influential Society specially devoted to the British Fisheries," was suggested so long ago as 1866, in the Report of the Royal Commission on Sea Fisheries, of which Mr. Huxley was a member. So far as I am personally concerned, Dr. Day's assumption rests on no stronger foundation. I can only repeat that I was ignorant of the existence of the paragraph in the Report alluded to until I heard it quoted in Mr. Huxley's address ; and that the proposal to form a National Fisheries Society had been suggested by me to the Commissioner for Conferences before the opening of the conferences. That I did not derive my ...« less