PLAN FOR AN EDUCATIONAL EXHIBIT OF FISHES. 



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(3) The gallery arrangement. — The idea for this somewhat more elaborate 

 method was suggested by the gallery of habitat bird groups in the American 

 Museum, but differs from it in that it combines a synoptic with a group exhibit. 

 It is adapted for a gallery surrounding a hall occupying the space of two stories, 

 such as occurs in most museums. At the side of the gallery farthest from the 

 windows is a continuous screen to cut off all light from other parts of the hall 

 (fig. 8, p. 1328) , while the window side is entirely taken up with a series of exhibits, 

 framed in by a casing, which, while it shuts off the light from the gallery, yet 

 diverts it so as to illuminate the exhibit from within. 



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Fig. 7. — Diagram of fish case to be used in hall with " alcove arrangement," showing central partition with 



countersunk effect. 



The adaptation of this method to a fish exhibit is shown in figure 9, page 1329. 

 Through the opening (A) is seen a pictorial fish group representing some inter- 

 esting feature. In the sketch an exhibit of fish life in the vicinity of a coral 

 reef in tropical waters has been indicated in outline. This group is the central 

 feature of that portion of the synoptic exhibit containing the suborders Pharyn- 

 gognathi, Squamipinnes, Sclerodermi, and Gymnodontes, which contain so many 

 of the brilliantly colored tropical species. 



