CENTENNIAL EXllIIilTION. G5 



gni plied, and then ii mold taken in plaster of Paris. The casts aro 

 tinally made either in papier-maclie or plaster and colored from the 

 sketches referred to. 



This work was also piosecnted durin<>' a four months' residence at 

 Wood's Hole, on Cape Cod. 



The series of casts thus taken is very extensive, end)racing' nearly six 

 hundred specimens, illustrating the Hshes of tiie ccean, the hikes, and 

 the rivers of the United States, and incUniiiig nearly all the species 

 known to the professional or the amateur tlsherman. In this collection, 

 also, is embraced the seals, and the different sj)e(-ies of cetaceans, such as 

 the porpoise, the black lish, grampus, white whale, &c., the whole display 

 being-, it is believed, far in advance of an>> thing that has ever been at- 

 tempted heretofore. 



It is also proposed to make an exhibition of sucdi living spec'ies as 

 can conveniently be procured. This teatuie wi(i probably be shown in 

 the agricultural building, under the chaige of tne agricultural branch 

 of the United States Centennial Commission, and [ pro[)ose to render 

 whatever assistance lies in my power i . snpi)lying the specimens. 



Another interesting feature o( this division will be the exhibition of 

 the tish themselves in a fresh state in a refrigerator, covered with a 

 glass top, and under tlie special direction of Mr. E. G. Blacklord, a well- 

 known fish-dealer in New York. This gentleman has undertaken not 

 only to put up the refrigerator, but to keej) it stocked every day with 

 various tishes from all portions of the United States. He will arrange 

 with some of the restaurants on the grounds to take the tish at the 

 close of the day and to serve thenr up to those calling for them. 



The second division, that of the applications of the lish, will consist, in 

 the first j)lace, of food-preparations, whether smoked, dried, salted, 

 pickled, (tanned, or otherwise treated. Next will conre the glues, gela- 

 tines, sizings, &c. : then the ecorroruical or ormimental aj)plications of 

 the scales; and, tinally, the oils and the guanos ami miscellaneous uses. 

 In this same exhibition will be included the vegetable and mineial 

 pr'oducts of the sea, such as the inlusorial earths, greeirsand, the various 

 alga3, &c., the latter with their api>lication as manures, and also in the 

 marnrfacture of soda, iodine, and other substances. 



The third division of this subje(;t will consist of as complete a series 

 as possible of the api)aratirs used in connection with the lisheries, and 

 will embrace models or full-size s[)ecimens of the various ships, steam- 

 ers, smacks, boats, canoes, smoke and cirring houses, nets, traps, pounds, 

 r-ods, reels, hooks, lines, artiticial baits, &c., and a variety of other arti- 

 cles too numerous to nrentiorr. A prominent idea will be the exhibition, 

 either separately or in collective divisioirs, of whatever illustrates the 

 different classes of the lisheries. Taking the whale-lisher-y as an illus- 

 tration, tlrer-e will be showir skeletons of several species of whale, 

 together with the whalebone, occupying its natural position in the 

 mouth. Wooden models of the large whales, and i)laster-casts of the 

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