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INTRODUCTION 



'T^HIS catalogue of ^Mounted Fish. Fish-like 



]\Iammals and Amphibian Reptiles on display 



in the Hall of Fishes of the Vanderbilt Marine 



Museum shows the results of thirty years of 



collecting in all Oceans and Seas of the World. 



The earliest mounted specimen was obtained in 



1908 and the latest in 1938. The Yachts 



TARANTULA, GENESEE, EAGLE, ARA and 



ALA^A all played their part in obtaining the 



various specimens exhibited. All these vessels 



were under the command of \\'. K. Vanderbilt 



as Master on the many cruises undertaken in 



search of the material displayed. Painstaking 



color sketches, by William E. Belanske, Curator 



of the Museum, made from the living fish, help 



to restore to the mounted specimen the sembluilCtf '"' 



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of life and the beauty of coloration possesses by ' '^ • - 

 the fish when captured. 



In referring to the catalogue the visitor 

 find the numeral applying to the spec tfT^iT 

 directly under or to the side of the fish descr bed*.- 



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