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congress. Dr. G. Brown Goode, Hon. E. G. Blackford, and Dr. Hugh 

 M. Smith acted as chairmen of the principal sections of the congress. 

 The meetings were brought to a close on October 19 by a fish banquet 

 in the hall of the New York State building, in Jackson Park, in which 

 the members of the Fisheries Congress, the conference of State commis- 

 sioners of fish and game, and their invited guests participated. Hon. 

 T. W. Palmer presided and delivered the opening address. Other 

 speakers of the evening were Hon. Carter H. Harrison, mayor of Chi- 

 cago; Messrs. Andrews, Bowman, and Breslin, of New York; Commis- 

 sioner McDonald, J. J. Quelch, commissioner of British Guiana, and 

 John Foord, secretary of the New York World's Fair Commission. 



The papers prepared for the World's Fisheries Congress have been 

 published, and form volume xiii of the Bulletin of the TJ. S. Fish 

 Commission. 



A complete descriptive catalogue of the Fish Commission exhibit was 

 prepared, but the plan and scope of the several sections will be suffi- 

 ciently shown by means of the following synopsis: 



CATALOGUE OF THE EXHIBIT. 

 Scientific Inquiry Section. 



i. Laboratories for Marine Exploration. 



Illustrations of Zoological Stations: (1) Laboratory at "Woods Hole, Mass., 1875. 



(2) Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass. 



2. Exploring Vessels. 



Models: (1) Steamer Albatross. (2) Steamer Fisb Hawk. (3) Scbooner Grampus. 

 Illustrations: (1) Steamer Albatross. (2) Steamer Fisb Hawk. (3) Schooner 

 Grampus. 



3. Collecting Apparatus. 



Nets: (1) Seines. (2) Beam trawls. (3) Towing nets. 



Dredges: (1) Naturalist's deep-sea dredge. (2) Naturalist's boat dredge. 



(3) Benedict rake dredge. (4) Oyster dredge. 

 Tangles. 



4. Accessories for Dredging and Trawling. 



Dredge rope (steel-wire dredge rope ; splices in dredge rope). Iron dredge block. 

 Sigsbee accumulator. Weights for beam trawl. 



5. Apparatus for Assorting Collections. 



Rocker sieves. Table sieves. Hand sieves. 



6. Apparatus for Preserving Collections : Tanks. 



7. Apparatus for Deep-Sea Sounding: 



Sigsbee sounding machine (model). 



8. Apparatus for Physical Observations. 



Thermometers: Deck thermometer. Professor Baird's protected thermometer. 

 Miller-Casella deep-sea thermometer. Negretti & Zambra ther- 

 mometer. 



Tliermometer cases and accessories : Wooden cases. Brass cases. Reading lens. 



Salinometers : Hilgard salinometer. 



