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BEFORE your correspondent peremptorily asserts that certain statements are “quite wrong,” it might be worth his while to ascertain that he was quite right in so doing. To begin with, he has evidently not read the Report to the Local Government Board “On Oyster Culture in Relation to Disease,” or he would have discovered that the statements to which he takes exception are made not on my authority, but on that of the Inspector of the Local Oyster Industries. On p. 24 of Dr. Bulstrode's report, under the heading “Oysters imported direct from abroad and consumed without being relaid in our waters,” it is stated that “large quantities are also imported from Holland, Belgium, and other countries. … I am informed by Mr. Mussun, of Liverpool, with whom I conferred at Cleethorpes, that the chief ports for the introduction of American oysters into this country are Liverpool and Southampton, and for North Sea oysters Grimsby and Brightlingsea.”
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THORPE, T. Oyster Culture in Relation to Disease. Nature 55, 154 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/055154b0
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