1921] POPE, THE ECONOMIC FISHERY EXHIBIT. 101 



At the present date, there have been installed a considerable 

 number of wax reproductions of both marine and fresh-water fishes, 

 tog-ether with their apparatus and products. Practically all of this 

 material has been secured as donations by personal solicitation. 

 Wax reproductions of fishes, products and by-products have been 

 made by the department's modeler. The numerous specimens of 

 apparatus and products, chiefly the former, have been sent to the 

 Museum from all parts of the country. The donors of this material 

 include the principal fishing-tackle manufacturers of the country. 

 Representatives of some of these companies have visited the ex- 

 hibit and have expressed a desire to have any future products of 

 their company added to the exhibit. The manufacturers see the pub- 

 licity possibilities in a permanent exhibit of their products before 

 about 600,000 visitors annually. The Museum secures a valuable 

 collection, which enables the visitor to study and compare various 

 articles pertaining to the fishing industry. No advertisement fea- 

 tures are included. On the contrary, every effort is made to pre- 

 vent advertisement of any particular firms. 



All are treated alike by adopting a uniform style of label. By this 

 means a manufacturer who produces only a few articles is on a pro- 

 portionately important plane with the larger donor in the exhibit. 

 Donors who contril:)ute many articles naturally have more space 

 allotted to their exhibit, but in no way is there an unfair compari- 

 son. In the arrangement of such an exhibit, strict attention has 

 been paid to the classification and grouping of material ; articles of 

 similar use and structure being grouped together. No original 

 mounting by contributors of material has been included in the dis- 

 play when it could be avoided, unless such commercial mounting 

 was an aid to installation and did not yield undue prominence. 



A fishery exhibit of this kind is obviously of great educational 

 value. Much material so installed is illustrative of the methods of 

 true conservation. Especially is this true in the marine section. 

 In the cases devoted to the codfish, f figure 51), for example, is a 

 natural-sized reproduction in wax of the cod, together with all 

 of the apparatus showing the methods of its capture, including 

 hand-line, traw-line and gill-nets. There is also a typical set of 

 the products and by-products made from the fish. We may also 

 study the further utilization of the skin, head, fins and other inedible 

 parts of the cod and other ground fishes. This includes the various 

 stages in the manufacture of glue, fertilizer and chicken-feed, also 



