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order that this Society might examine those collections. 
They are now nearly ready or in a very advanced stage. 
I do not deem it necessary to go over these exhibits in 
detail to this Society. I believe the most of you gentle- 
men have had the opportunity of looking at the exhibits 
and have formed your own opinions regarding them. It 
may be well, nevertheless, to say in general terms that the 
exhibits fill the classification as it stands. This classifica- 
tion will embrace subjects of scientific inquiry as well as 
of fisheulture; also the maps showing the fishing grounds 
and the distribution of species. Following these, it was 
intended to illustrate the laws and other literature of sea 
fishing and angling, also to show pictures, emblems and 
various other things connected therewith. Then we come 
to the fresh-water fishing and angling, which covers all the 
various appliances and methods used either for sport fish- 
ing or commercial fishing in the great lakes or other in- 
terior waters. Following this was a group which embraced 
the whole subject of the preparation of the fishery pro- 
ducts and the products themselves, and last, one including 
fishculture and scientific study of the matters relating 
thereto. In various ways the first group has been very 
completely filled. Not only have we live fish and other 
forms of aquatic life in the main aquarial building and in 
the exhibits from Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, but there 
are innumerable varieties of fish and other animals which 
are pursued by fishermen, appearing as mounted specimens 
in casts and represented by paintings and photographs 
and otherwise. The fishing grounds are also illustrated 
by certain exhibitors. It is hardly necessary, I believe, to 
say to any one who has visited the Fisheries Building that 
the gear of all countries, the apparatus used for capture, 
is well represented. 
A very interesting collection to me is that of the fishing 
craft, vessels and boats. Not only can we see the rude 
dug-outs, skin boats and bark canoes which were in use in 
