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fishes: 1st, a fine specimen of the tarpon, occasionally caught 
in Rhode Island; 2nd, a large specimen of the small-mouthed 
black bass; and 38rd, a painting, made from life, and in the pos- 
session of the United States Fish Commission, of the newly dis- 
covered tile fish, which is abundant off the coast of Rhode 
Island, in the water of about one hundred and fifty fathoms, at 
the edge of the Gulf Stream. The tile fish has been recently 
introduced into the markets by the United States Fish Commis- 
sion, and the history of its discovery, disappearance and reap- 
pearance, and the account of its economic value, has been given in 
the report of this commission for 1900. 
VII. This section of the exhibit consisted of a large relief map 
of Narragansett Bay and the surrounding shore, made by the 
commission, to show the configuration of the sea bottom, ete. 
The model was constructed from accurate government charts, 
which give very numerous soundings, and the territory repre- 
sented in the model extends beyond the mouth of the Bay nearly 
as far’as Block Island. The location of the fish-traps and the 
leased oyster grounds of the Bay for the year 1900 are indicated 
upon the map. 
VIII. In addition to these special exhibits, a list of the special 
papers representing the investigations of the commission since 
1898 was presented for the benefit of those who wished to learn 
more fully the results which the exhibit was intended to illustrate. 
The list is as follows : 
The report of 1898 contains : 
1. A preliminary report on the star-fish. 
The report of 1899 contains : 
2, A record of the dredging of the United States Fish Commission 
steamer ‘‘ Fish Hawk,” in Narragansett Bay. 
Investigations of the red-water plague, which destroyed multi- 
tudes of fish and crustacea during the fall of 1898. 
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4. Special report on the star-fish. 
Life-history of the common clam (Mya arenaria). 
Or 
6. Report on the tile fish (Lopholatilus chamcleonticeps). 
