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believe the classification adopted is sufficiently broad in its 

 scope to permit the inclusion of anything which will be 

 strictly germane to fish or fishing. This seems to cover the 

 whole field, and under it not only will it be proper to show 

 living and mounted specimens of all forms, from micro- 

 scopic animals to whales, together with aquatic or marine 

 vegetation, and the apparatus for their capture, but it will 

 also include the products of the fisheries and their manip- 

 ulation in all their varied forms of methods and material . 

 Beside this, there will be ample opportunity to illus- 

 trate angling of every description, togetjier with fish cul- 

 ture and the literature of fishing and all that pertains 

 thereto. Indeed, I can think of nothing which would be 

 of value to the fisheries exhibit which cannot properly be 

 included under the classification referred to. 



I have thus briefly outlined what has been and will be 

 done by the Exposition Management to provide for a great 

 fisheries exhibit. It now remains with others to make this 

 one of the most attractive and successful features of the 

 World's Fair, as I believe it will be; for it must be fairly 

 assumed that those who are interested in fishing, and all 

 that relates to it, will not permit this grand oppoitu- 

 nity to pass unimproved. From information now at hand 

 we have reason to expect marked enthusiasm in this mat- 

 ter on the part of all the fisheries interests in this country, 

 and that as a result there will be gathered at Chicago, in 

 1893, a magnificent and exhaustive display illustrative of 

 angling, commercial fishing, fish culture, and the science 

 of the seas. It will thus be possible for the citizens of 

 other countries who are our customers to find there an 

 infinite variety of fishery products — the harvest of the seas, 

 lakes, and rivers — and the whole world may see object- 

 lessons which will convey in the most emphatic manner 

 information concerning the methods and magnitude of our 

 fisheries, and their history and development from the earli- 

 est settlement of the country. In the same way the world 



