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which go to fill in the missing link, so to speak, in lines 
of transportation, and even in the Arts Building a very 
considerable percentage of the beautiful paintings that are 
there, might properly be included under the head of a fish- 
eries exhibit. 
I think it is but just to myself to make allusion to these 
facts which I have mentioned in order; if there are any 
missing links in the Fisheries Building, they may thus be 
accounted for. I have not in this enumeration included 
the exhibit of the United States Fish Commission which 
stands close to that in the Fisheries Building, for the rea- 
son that I have always looked upon that, and I think it 
has generally been looked upon, as a part of the general 
fisheries display at this Exposition, and was so intended 
to be from the first, though it was deemed expedient and 
best for all concerned that it should be put in the Govern- 
ment Building to be distinctly a national exhibit, an ex- 
hibit which would be systematically arranged and would 
cover in a general way all that relates to the fisheries of 
this country, as well as to fishculture and scientific ex- 
ploration as conducted by the national Government. 
But, notwithstanding all this, there is reason for some 
satisfaction in what has been accomplished by the depart- 
ment. It is true that there has been delay in the installa- 
tion, due to the fact chiefly that certain of our State Leg- 
islatures were tardy in making their appropriations, that 
some individuals did not realize the importance of this 
Exposition to themselves until near the date of the open- 
ing, and to the additional fact that the exhibit front Rus- 
sia was delayed by being frozen in in the Baltic, and to 
_the fact that those from Brazil have not arrived so early 
as expected because of some difficulty in getting them 
shipped from that country. To-day, however, the exhibits 
are practically completed, and I have much satisfaction in 
saying that at my request special effort has been made to 
place in position the exhibits from Russia and Brazil in 
