REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 1 1\) 



tographs of the more important fish-cultural stations. The Division 

 of Fisheries exhibited plaster casts of all of the principal food fishes, 

 papier-mache* casts of the porpoises, the oil and bone whales, specimens 

 of the edible mollusks of the country, and maps showing 1 the distribu- 

 tion of the fishes of greatest commercial importance. It also sent pho- 

 tographs of fishermen engaged in different branches of the sea and river 

 fisheries, as well as pictures of their homes and villages, and, in addition, 

 a series of pictures showing the various forms of fishing- vessels and 

 boats, and the apparatus and methods employed in the cod, halibut, 

 herring, mackerel, aud other fisheries, and statistical charts showing 

 the yield in different years. 



