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trays, each specimen being provided with a printed descriptive label. 

 The collection filled twenty-one standard cases, occupying floor-space 

 of more than 1 ,600 square feet. 



EXHIBIT OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE. 



The preparation of a collection illustrating the development of the 

 vessels of the merchant marine was undertaken by Capt. J. W. Collins, 

 of the U.S. Fish Commission, who visited the different centers of the ship- 

 building industry and obtained builders' models of vessels of different 

 types, the series beginning with the primitive forms, and ending with 

 those of the most modern pattern. Prominent among these were 

 models showing the development of cotton ships. In addition to 

 the above were exhibited several fine models, belonging to the section 

 of naval architecture in the National Museum. These included a full- 

 rigged whaling-ship, a Chinese war-junk, and a three-masted schooner 

 of modern build. Messrs. Higgins & Gifford, a firm engaged exten- 

 sively in the manufacture of all kinds of sail-boats, row-boats, and 

 yachts, sent an interesting collection showing the different types of 

 boats manufactured by them, including a model of the dory " Centen- 

 nial," the smallest boat that ever crossed the ocean. 



THE ART EXHIBIT. 



A collection to illustrate the growth of art was prepared by Prof. G. 

 Brown Goode. It consisted of about one hundred and twenty auto- 

 types, representing the most noted pictures of the principal artists of 

 the world arranged chronologically by countries. The collection began 

 with Cimabue, the most noted artist of the thirteenth century, and con- 

 tained representations of the work of prominent artists from that time 

 to the present. 



In addition to the foregoing, the collection contained a very interest- 

 ing series of autotypes representing noted pieces of sculpture, these 

 being confined chiefly to representations of the works of Greek and 

 Italian sculptors. 



Besides the autotypes, there was an exhibit prepared by the Photo- 

 Engraving Company, of New York, to illustrate the process of photo- 

 engraving j another, prepared by H. C. Whitcomb & Co., illustrating 

 the process of stereotyping ; and a third, by the same firm, showing 

 the most modern methods of electrotyping. 



THE FISHERIES AND FISH-CULTURAL EXHIBITS. 



The collection illustrating the fisheries consisted of about one hundred 

 and fifty framed photographs, solar enlargements, and drawings in 

 crayon illustrative of the apparatus and methods employed in the sea 

 and river fisheries of the United States, and, in addition, a very com- 

 plete collection of models in plaster of the principal food-fishes of North 

 America, including both the marine and fresh-water species. There 

 were also exhibited a series of diagrams prepared by Prof. W. O. At- 



