V -THE UNITED STATES EXHIBIT AT THE BERLIN INTER- 

 NATIONAL FISHERY EXPOSITION OF 1880.* 



fFom the "Vossisohe Zeitung," June 3, 1880.] 



The oldest, most important, and most faithful ally of the German 

 Fishery Association is North America, and more especially the United 

 States Commission of Fish and Fisheries at Washington, at the head 

 of which is Prof. Spencer F. Baird, who deserves great credit for his 

 efforts in behalf of pisciculture. This gentleman, whose name is well 

 known in Europe, is also Director of the National Museum and Secre- 

 tary of the Smithsonian Institution. The three institutions over which 

 he presides are closely connected with each other, the two last men- 

 tioned extending their aims beyond fishery and flsh-culture, and devot- 

 ing themselves also to other fields of science. Nothing could have 

 raised our expectations, here in Berlin, to a higher pitch than the news 

 which reached us some months ago, that we should be privileged to 

 view the piscicultural achievements of the United States, to which 

 von Behr, of Schmoldow, had so often directed our attention. Our 

 expectation has now been realized, and we are happy to see among the 

 representatives of the United States who present to our view the 

 American exhibit, as the result of the labors of the National Museum 

 at Washington, a gentleman already well known in our capital, one of 

 Professor Baird's assistants, the famous pisciculturist Fred. Mather, who 

 has repeatedly crossed the ocean in order to enrich German fish-culture 

 with the treasures of the American rivers, and to whom we owe, aaiong 

 other things, the successful introduction into Germany of the California 

 silver-salmon, Salmo quinnat [Oncorhynchus chotiicha (Walb.) J. & G.], 

 which thrives so well in our streams. The large and rich exhibit of the 

 United States at our Fishery Exposition, which occupies nearly one- 

 fourth of the first floor of the Museum of Agriculture, is systematically 

 arranged in classes, according to the programme ; and it might have 

 been predicted that the majority of the articles exhibited would testify 

 to that common sense and practical genius which long since have made 

 our trans-oceanic friends the foremost inventors of the world. It is, in- 

 deed, not saying too much if we state that the united achievements, in 

 this field, of all other nations cannot be compared with the astonishing 



* Die inlcrnatiouale Fischerei-Aussitlhntg zu Berlin : 

 VI. Nord-Am(frika. Translated from the German by Herman Jacobson 

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