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interest are fortunate, and they should encourage their offspring 

 whenever possible. I have included methods of working with 

 fishes that can fit into the specific interests and capabilities of 

 any age group of voung boys. Twenty summers of experience 

 have brought home to me the importance of nature study and 

 museums in summer camps. Annuallv, at the approach of 

 spring, I receive inquiries from school and college students, 

 and others having summer jobs at boys' camps, who are inter- 

 ested in establishing a program concerning fish. This has led 

 me to include a complete section of instructions on collecting, 

 preserving, and displaying a fish collection intelligently at 

 summer camps and other holiday resorts— inland or along the 

 seashore. An organized activity of this type can be of in- 

 estimable value to any summer camp. 



Last, but not least, because I am also a professional museum 

 man, I am in constant touch with the latest development in 

 methods of preparation. Through trial and error, mostly in the 

 field, I have developed methods which perhaps are not gen- 

 erally 7 known to other scientists because they have never been 

 published. Chapter 10, Fishes in Museums of Natural History, 

 should be of value to scientists, commercial taxidermists, and 

 anglers who are interested in advanced techniques. 



I strongly recommend that before attempting any method 

 included in this volume, the angler first read the entire book. 



Edward C. Migdalski 

 New Haven, Connecticut 

 January, I960 



