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spread on the bottom awaiting its prey. Nets, traps, lines and 

 hooks in many forms for many uses. The model of a portion of 

 Hamburg harbor is wonderfully constructed on a scale of i to loo. 

 ( Fig. 69.) It was made by W. Albrecht. An accompanying map 

 of the whole harbor shows what a small portion of the whole is 

 represented in the model. At my previous visit I was much inter- 

 ested in the works then in construcftion in the Hamburg harbor, 



69. MODEIv OF HAMBURG HARBOR (PART). 



and the portion shown in the model includes the wharfage of the 

 Hamburg- American line. 



In the biological section is shown a portion of a coral reef from 

 the shore of the Red Sea near the Sinaitic peninsula (Fig. 70); 

 other fine specimens of coral, shell, casts of fish (the last mostly 

 of sharks and similar fish, and not so well colored as our own 

 specimens) occupy the cases and the walls above. Surely when 

 a suitable building is provided this oceanographic museum may 

 well lead the world. The mere handbook is a brochure of 152 

 octavo pages, and I have given but the briefest sketch of what 

 in full w^ould fill a portly volume. 



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