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MR HOLDSWORTH, at the close of his animadversions (NATURE, vol. xv. p. 23) on the address I recently delivered in the Biological Section of the British Association at Glasgow, says that he does not know on what evidence I grounded my belief in the decline of our sea-fisheries. I am therefore anxious to state that the evidence to which I trusted in what I then said was mainly, if not entirely, that collected by the Royal Commission of which he was the hard-working secretary. The kindness of my good friend in giving me private notice of his intention to make his comments public enables me the more promptly to furnish a reply to them, and for so doing he has my best thanks.
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01 November 1876
P. 57 col. i. line 12 from bottom, for “Tides” read “Fish.”
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NEWTON, A. Sea Fisheries. Nature 15, 55–57 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/015055a0
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