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seen in most fishery exhibitions ; and, -while the epicure may 

 eye the tid-bits, the economic housewife is taught that all parts 

 of a fish may be made useful. At the Hague Fishery Ex- 

 position large jars were exhibited filled with choice morsels 

 from parts of the cod that have hitherto been thrown away as 

 inedible. The lips, the cheeks, and the jelly from the head of 

 that fish, afibrd choice eating. The merits of Dutch cured her- 

 ring, i.e. fish pickled with a portion of the intestines left in them, 

 were at the Hague contrasted with the British mode of curing, 

 and the Dutch way was found in many respects the best. The 

 fish-curers always send a good stock of preserved fish to fishery 

 exhibitions : sardines from Concarneau, matie herrings from 

 Vlaardingen, anchovies from Genoa, pickled mackerel, preserved 

 oysters, fish-flour, etc. etc., are plentifully shown. The "ex- 

 hibits " in the way of prepared fish-food were very heterogeneous 

 at all the exhibitions — each eurer, of course; showing on his own 

 behalf. The collection of food-fishes in these shows was nothing 

 like so perfect as that in the Industrial Museum of Edinburgh ; 

 where most of the food-fishes — ranging in variety of size and 

 shape from whitebait to sturgeon — may be seen in a finely pre- 

 served state. 



The ambition of the directors of the exposition at Arcachon 

 was to show a little of everything connected with the science of 

 the seas, even to specimens of the ground inhabited by mussels, as 

 well as bits of rock frequented by the larger crustaceans. The 

 uses of sea-weed were demonstrated ; the guano made from those 

 inedible fish with which the sea abounds could also be tested at 

 the exposition of Arcachon. Various other sea products were 

 likewise to be seen there, as ambergris, spermaceti, shagreen, the 

 dye-shells of the Indian Ocean, etc. And, better than all, at 

 Arcachon exposition the best fishes of the sea could be seen 

 disporting au naturel. Oysters from the He de Ed were also 

 there, growing on the very tiles which had intercepted them as 

 spat. Cultivated mussels, so valuable as bait, were likewise ex- 

 hibited, hanging in beautiful clusters, just as they had grown on 

 the basket-work erected in the bay of Aiguillon. Crustacean 

 monsters bounded to and fro in the very unimaginative aquarium 

 which terminated the chdlet of the exhibition, and which, although 

 very useful, was very unlike the picturesque fish-house erected 

 at Boulogne. One of the curiosities of the place was the. Sea- 

 angler or Fishing Frog, a drawing of which will interest those 

 of my readers who have never seen a living specimen. Bar- 



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