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therefore, instead of presenting long lines of exhibition cases with alco- 

 holic specimens in them, we have tried in the past to present our ex- 

 hibits in an attractive form and from the point of view of the course 

 of study in the schools; so that teachers may impress upon their pupils 

 those lessons which it is most desirable to impress, and particularly 

 connected with those economic problems that it is our duty and our 

 pleasure to solve. 



It is necessary, therefore, to make selections from our scientific col- 

 lections; not only that, but to substitute for the shrunken and bleached 

 material which we ordinarily find in alcohol — for the dried specimens 

 which are sometimes exhibited in a shrunken condition for the larger 

 fishes — the Hfelike representation of the actual fish; to teach these 

 elementary students facts which will not be distorted through methods 

 of preparation. 



Therefore we have taken, in the case of the fishes, casts and models 

 and plates which will represent fish more accurately than it is possible 

 to do with the alcoholic specimens, and then those have been arranged 

 with a labeling which it is intended shall appeal to two different sets 

 of people — in the first place to the elementary students of the public 

 school and in the next place to the more advanced of the morphological 

 and biological students who come to us from our universities. 



