HC Deb 20 June 1901 vol 95 cc909-10
MR. WEIR

I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been called to a proposal of the Grimsby Town Council to ask the Government to transfer to Grimsby the collection of fishery specimens which the late Mr. Frank Buckland left to the nation; and will he say if this collection is still at South Kensington, and when and where it will be open to inspection by the public.

SIR J. GORST

Perhaps I may be allowed to answer this question. The Board of Education have never heard of the Grimsby proposal; the fish are at the Victoria and Albert Museum at South Kensington, and can be seen there at all times when the museum is open.