V.-REPORT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES IN THE 

 WORLD'S EXPOSITION IN PHILADELPHIA, 187G. 



By Joakim Andeussex, Juryman.* 



THE FISHERY EXHIBITIOl!^ IN THILADELPHIA IN 187G. 



COaiPRISED ACCORDING TO THE " GROUPING FOR THE JUDGES' WORK." 



(Geofp Y.) 



Fish and productions of fisheries, fishing implements, &c. : 



1. Aquatic mammals : seals, whales, &c. ; living specimens in aquaria ; speci- 



mens stuflfed, salted, or preserved in other ways. 



2. Fish, alive and preserved. 



3. Fish in brine, and parts of fish used for food. 



4. Crustacea, echinoderms, beche de mer. 



5. Mollusks, oysters, clams, «S:c., used for food. 



6. Shells, corals, and pearls. 



7. Whalebone, shagreen, fish-glue, isinglass. 



8. Fishing implements : nets, baskets, hooks, and other apparatus used for fishing. 



9. Pisciculture : aquaria, hatching-pools, vessels for transporting roe and young 



fish, and other apparatus used for hatching, raising, or preserving fish. 



The judges, wliose number for the whole exposition was 250 (lialf of 

 that number being Americans) in the department of fisheries, were, in 

 the beginning — 



1. Professor Spencer F. Baird, director of one department of the gov- 

 ernment exhibit and Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tition in Washington, chairman. 



2. Mr. Seth Green, Superintendent of Fisheries of tlie State of New 

 York, from Rochester, N. Y.; and 



3. The editor of this report. 



Later, when Mr. Seth Green, partly on account of his health and 

 partly on account of his many other engagements, could not attend^ and 

 was therefore discharged at his own request, his place was filled by a 

 man of similar experience, Mr. T. B. Ferguson, Commissioner of Fisheries 

 for the State of Maryland. Both Professor Baird and Mr. Ferguson 

 were so overwhelmed with work and were so mucli occupied in various 

 ways that they had scarcely any time to attend to their jury work. In 

 consequence, Mr. B. BliUlips, secretary of the government exhibit, a 



* Beretning om Fiskeriafdelingen ved Verdensudstillingen i Philadelphia i 1876, af 

 Joakim Anderssen, Jurymand. Aalesund, 1877. Translated by H. Jacobson. 



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