SO BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



REPORT OPi 1 Hi. EDIMU'liCn FISHERIES EXHIBITION. 



By J. A. LEONARD. 



[Dispatch to the State Department; transmitted to the U. S. Fish Commission.] 



The International Fisheries Exhibition referred to in previous dis- 

 patches from this consulate, was held at Edinburgh, Scotland, opening 

 on the 12th and closing on the 29th of April, 1882. It was, both in the 

 extent of the exhibition and in the attendance it attracted, very satis- 

 factory. Notwithstanding the prevalence of bad weather during much 

 of the time, the attendance was quite large, the number of visitors 

 ranging from 7,000 to 15,000 a day, and aggregating about 150,000 for 

 the whole sixteen days. The visitors were principally from Scotland, and 

 most of them from places easily accessible to Edinburgh. It was remu- 

 nerative, taking in about $29,000 as the proceeds of admission tickets. 

 The exhibition was under the control of the Scotch Fisheries Improve- 

 ment Association and other societies, and was intended to include all 

 kinds of articles connected with or illustrative of the fisheries of the 

 world. The number of exhibits was 527, of which .302 were from Scot- 

 land, 89 from Englaud, 44 from Sweden, 31 from Norway, 21 from Ger- 

 many, 12 from Denmark, 4 each from Ireland, the United States, and 

 Italy, 3 each from Russia, France, and Switzerland, 2 from Canada, and 

 1 each from Holland, Spain, Iceland, China, and Africa. It will be no- 

 ticed that there were very few exhibits from the United States. 



Messrs. Conroy, Bissett & Mallison, of New York, had on exhibition 

 some samples of fishing-rods of their manufacture. Their peculiarity 

 consisted in being made of cane split and joined in such a way as to 

 secure lightness, combined with strength, and they were, besides, very 

 handsomely finished. I was told by a Scotch manufacturer that the 

 Americans gave their rods a finish that cannot be got in this country, 

 but that the American article costs more than those made here, say 

 about 85 on a $30 set. A silver medal was awarded to Conroy, Bissett 

 & Mallison for their exhibition of rods and tackle. The Gloucester 

 Isinglass and Glue Company, of Gloucester, Mass., made an excellent 

 exhibition of several varieties of isinglass and glue manufactured from 

 fish-skins, samples of articles in the manufacture of which they are 

 used, specimens offish-skins before manufacture, and samples of guano. 

 They were awarded a silver medal for glue and isinglass, a silver medal 

 for the application of them to many useful ends, and a diploma for guano 

 made from the refuse of the company's manufacture. E. G. Blackford, 

 of Fulton Market, New York, sent from there samples of American fresh 

 fish, striped bass, shad, red snapper, pompano, and brook trout. Hugh 

 D. McGovern, of Brooklyn, N. Y., had on exhibition a rare prepared 

 specimen, a year-old trout, surmounted by the fish-eating bug, Belastoma 



