International Fisheries Rxhibition 



LONDON, 1883 



NOTES 



ON THE 



FOOD FISHES AND EDIBLE MOLLUSCA 



OF 



NEW SOUTH WALES. 



The greater portion of the exhibits in the New South 

 Wales Court have been Hberally supplied by the Trustees 

 of the Australian Museum, at the request of the Commis- 

 sioners of the New South Wales Fisheries, having been 

 specially prepared by the skilled taxidermists of that 

 institution, the Commissioners themselves undertaking, 

 through their energetic Secretary, Mr. Lindsay Thomson, 

 the preserving of the tinned fish and oysters, and procuring 

 from the various beds the large and interesting collection 

 of oysters displayed in the Court, as well as the fishing- 

 boat, nets, and lines, the fish-oils, the photographs, and oil 

 paintings of the food-fishes, with many other interesting 

 articles mentioned in the Catalogue. 



The notes appended to each of the different samples 

 of oysters have been collated from the reports sent with 

 each to the Commissioners by the inspectors and sub- 

 inspectors of the various leased beds in the colony of New 

 South Wales. 



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