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to a greater height so that the large lateral halls support light 

 iron galleries (shown in Fig. 95) provided with eases for alcoholic 

 and other preserves. In the square hall the object first attracting 

 attention is a whaleboat fully armed with line, gun-harpoon, hand- 

 harpoon, lances and all tools needed for the capture of whales. 

 This strongly recalled to me the earlier days when Honolulu had 

 every winter its fleet of whalers, and these boats were very com- 

 mon ; and this memory we in the Bishop Museum are preserving 

 in a collection of these same tools obtained in New Bedford and 

 elsewhere, for they are now unknown in the Hawaiian group. 

 In this room are revolving cases stocked with historical photo- 

 graphs of all the Prince's cruises, and much material pertaining to 

 oceanology. The cases in this museum are of metal, as in all 

 modern museums of importance. 



The hall on the east (Fig. 95) has all that concerns physical 

 and chemical oceanography; apparatus for sounding, dredging 

 and fishing. The collection of the latter implements is continually 

 growing, and as yet has little or nothing of the fisheries of primi- 

 tive peoples — the ethnographic side. If the Bishop Museum could 

 bring together (as it can with time and means) such a collection 

 of Pacific fishing implements as Monaco has of European, especially 

 French nets, hooks, traps, etc., it might prove even more interest- 

 ing. Models of fish-traps and nets and artificial fish-ponds of the 

 Pacific groups, such as our Mr. J. F. G. Stokes has for some time 

 been studying and collecting in specimen, picture or model, would 

 be both interesting and instructive, for the fashions in these are 

 changing almost as fast in the Pacific as the fashions in dress 

 and speech. 



Of course, beside the fishing implements are series of the things 

 caught, whether for mere ornament, as the pearl, or for food as fish, 

 mussels, etc. This collection has a broad field. Not only are 

 there engines so purely scientific that the ordinary visitor has no 

 idea of how they are used or why, but those clearly industrial, 

 that many as they pass could give name to without consulting 

 label or guide. Here are the deep sea closing net devised by the 

 Prince, of Professor Fowler, those of Nansen, Schmidt, Hensen, 

 and various nets and apparatus used by different expeditions to 

 collect the microscopic plankton of the surface, in intermediate 



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