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naoles flourished in some of the salt-water tanks, and the 

 maladies of fishes were shown in numerous glass jars which 

 studded the tables and counters of the show-room. The de- 

 velopment of salmon, from the egg to the animal, was likewise 

 shown. Pisciculture could be studied, either as developed at 

 Huningue or as practised in a ruder fashion at tnore homely 

 places. The arts of fishing, as known in all countries having 



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access to the sea, were displayed at Arcachon, either by pictures 

 or models. Pearl-fishing, coral-diving, seal-slaughtering, turtle- 

 hunting, and the sponge harvest, can all be well represented at 

 a fishery exhibition. 



After the eye had been gratified with numerous out-of-the- 

 way -wonders, there are left for the fishery economist certain 

 higher aspects of the show. AH that could be seen, whether of 

 products or apparatus, supplied texts on which to hang lay- 



