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Said the London " Standard" (September 17, 1883) : " There is no other 

 country which contributed such large and well-detined collections on 

 such an important and adequate scale as the United States. The dis- 

 play of these vast stores of material in an accessible form, and with 

 scientific knowledge as well as skillfulness of arrangement for effectj 

 does great credit to those to whom the interests of the American exhibit 

 have been intrusted. * * * To describe the American contribution 

 thoroughly would take more than a volume, for there is not an admis- 

 sible subject that is not fully illustrated by models, drawings, books, 

 photographs, and actual specimens." 



"England" (June 30, 1883), remarked: "The United States court is 

 certainly the most instructive in the Exhibition. It represents such a 

 vast industry, and has been arranged in so methodical and intelligent 

 a fashion." 



Said the London ''Evening News" (June 22, 1884) : " It is only natural 

 that the exhibits from the great Eepublic should hold a very prominent 

 place both as regards importance and number. * * * So large in- 

 deed is the court, and so very varied and interesting, are the things 

 there shown, that it would be quite a hopeless task to try and even give 

 a faint description of them in one article." 



XoRWAY. — In a report to the Norwegian Government, after his return 

 from a visit to the United States in 1876, Mr. F. M. Wallem, one of the 

 X)rincipal fishery authorities of that country, wrote : " In a book on trout 

 culture, written by a practical breeder, it is said * * * that ' it pays 

 better to rear trout than hogs,' and every one knows what the pork busi- 

 ness is for America. All that I have learned indicates that this assertion 

 has gained general acceptance, both among the common people and the 

 learned ; and it is said to be admitted that in the art of rearing fish the 

 Americans surpass all others. Partly to control the fisheries themselves, 

 and partly to carry on hatching operations, there were appointed in 

 eighteen different States, taken together, fifty-two commissioners, be- 

 sides a regular staff of subordinate officials. There was established by 

 the United States Government, besides, a Fish Commission, whose chief 

 is the well-known Prof. Spencer F. Baird. With this complement of 

 special, practical, cultivated officials, and talented, scientific men, the 

 effort was untiring to produce and distribute young fishes. # * * 

 From what I have communicated it will presumablj^ be evident that the 

 American example contains a, stirring invitation to Norway to develop her 

 freslt-icater fisheries, which are now greatly neglected. 



The jSTetherlands. — I quote a few sentences from a recent essay on 

 the London Fisheries Exhibition, by Prof. A. A. W. Hubrecht, of the 

 University of Utrecht, one of the Dutch Commission of Fisheries. 



" Whilst in Eui'ope fish culture, if not exclusively, at any rate prin- 

 cipally occupies itself with the Salmonidce, America also raises arti- 

 ficially other kinds of fish, * * * fig]^ belonging to the Clupeidce 

 and the Cyprinidoi, and even codfish. As regards the last-named species 



