THE ZOOLOGIST. 



THIRD SERIES 



Vol. VII.] MAY, 1883. [No. 77. 



THE INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES EXHIBITION. 



The idea of an International Fisheries Exhibition seems to 

 have arisen out of the success which attended a similar under- 

 taking on a smaller scale at Norwich in 1881. 



Mr. Southwell was a true prophet when, describing the Norwich 

 Exhibition in ' Tbe Zoologist ' for that year (p. 249), he said that 

 it had proved such a success in all respects that there could be 

 little doubt it would be speedily followed by similar exhibitions in 

 other parts of the country. His prediction is now to be verified 

 in the International scheme which is on the eve of completion, 

 and which has already assumed a magnitude and importance 

 which will eclipse everything of the kind hitherto attempted. 



The inauguration has been fixed for the 12th of May, on 

 which day the Exhibition will be opened by Her Majesty the 

 Queen in person, and we understand that from that date the 

 public will be afforded admission daily for six months. 



Few people require to be informed, unless they be visitors 

 from a distance, that the site of the Exhibition will be the Horti- 

 cultural Gardens at South Kensington, lying between the Albert 

 Hall, in the Knightsbridge Road, and the new Natural History 

 Museum which faces Cromwell Road. Here a mass of temporary 

 buildings have been erected, which, although of plain and 

 unattractive exterior, are internally decorated with taste, and 

 appear admirably suited to the purpose for which they have been 

 designed. At the same time it has been wisely decided to leave 

 untouched the most ornamental portions of the grounds, where, 



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