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limited. As all aquariums must procure their 

 own exhibits, from natural sources of supply, 

 the indications are that the collections of the 

 New York Aquarium will not be quite up to the 

 standard until after the war. 



Lecture on Fish Culture. — The Director of 

 the Aquarium gave an illustrated lecture on the 

 subject of Fish Culture for Farms, it Columbia 

 University, on February 1 5. This was one of 

 the winter series of lectures under the auspices 

 of the University Department of Agriculture. 



Whale Meat. — New York has not yet received 

 a very large share of the whale meat that is now 

 being made available. While Pacific Coast 

 cities have been using it for months, shipments 

 to eastern cities have been rather limited. Bos- 

 ton has had a few carloads. It was recently 

 quoted in the New York wholesale market re- 

 ports at seventeen to eighteen cents a pound, 

 and was for sale at a dozen or more retail 

 stands. It appears that the supply was largely 

 taken by the uptown district. Canneries have 

 alreadv been established on the Pacific, and lim- 



ited quantities of the canned article have been 

 available for some time. 



Whale meat is palatable and nutritious, and 

 there is little evidence of prejudice against it. 

 It is no doubt destined to come into general use. 

 Whales are enormously large animals, and the 

 vast quantities of whale meat hitherto wasted or 

 converted into fertilizer, will hereafter be put 

 to better use. A report has just been received 

 from British Columbia that the season's whale 

 catch for that region is the largest since 1911, 

 amounting to about 1 .000 whales. 



Food Fishes at Trenton Fair. — At the request 

 of the New Jersey Fish and Game Commission, 

 the Aquarium lent several shipping tanks of 

 food fishes for exhibition at the State Fair at 

 Trenton. September 3 — October -1. Shipment 

 was made at the expense of the Commission. 

 Most of the fishes sent were returned, together 

 with many others collected for the occasion. A 

 similar arrangement was effected last year which 

 proved equally advantageous to the State Com- 

 mission and the Aquarium. 



