60 American Fisheries Society. 



Needless to state, the average natural history museum 

 possesses a systematic collection of fishes. In addition to 

 that, the Milwaukee Museum has initiated the nucleus of an 

 Economic Fishery Collection in which it is planned to ulti- 

 mately include all of the economic food and game fishes of 

 the country, these to be supported by as complete a collec- 

 tion as possible of all apparatus used in their capture, of the 

 products and byproducts that come from the same with 

 ample charts, photos and models to illustrate the fishery 

 methods and commercial processes. Such a collection is ex- 

 plained in the copy of the Museum Yearbook submitted for 

 your reference. 



In a museum of this kind is, therefore, the opportunity 

 for the installation of fish-cultural apparatus and exhibit 

 material, photographs, explanatory charts and diagrams, 

 models and all else that serves to publicly explain and illus- 

 trate the cause of the fish-culturalist and conservationist. 

 Legal and illegal apparatus could be exhibited with brief 

 popular descriptive labels that tell the aims and story of 

 the conservation commissions. In fact, there is today hardly 

 any useful public cause or occupation that is not conducive 

 to illustration through exhibits. But the material must and 

 should come directly from the interested parties themselves 

 if they would desire their own field of endeavor with its 

 aims, methods and tangible results to be more adequately 

 and intelligently presented to the people. The modern 

 museum is therefore in a position to encourage, foster and 

 promote the fishery industry but it should have active sup- 

 port from the interested scientifi.c societies. 



CONCLUSION 



In conclusion, therefore, allow me to state that our pub- 

 lic natural history museums, our fishery colleges (as repre- 

 sented by the Seattle Institution), our commercial museums 

 (as that of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum), and all 

 other similiar institutions of this country and Canada do 

 actually serve the fishery and allied causes and that active 

 cooperation between these institutions and the various so- 

 cieties concerned cannot be too strongly emphasized. 



Discussion. 

 Mr. Doze : At Topeka recently they had a free fair ; a pavilion was 

 built f cr the Fish and Game Department and we exhibited fish there. I 

 was told by those connected with the fair that this exhibit was the most 

 popular place in the e^ounds; there was not a time when the people were 

 not gathered three or four thick around the exhibits. We took advan- 

 tage of ti\e opportunity of handing out literature published by the Fish 

 and Game Department, with suggestions in regard to organizing local 



