Aug. 15, 1908.] 
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EXACT CAST OF FISH. 
J. D. Figgins, head of the department of 
preparation and exhibition of the American 
Museum of Natural History, has succeeded in 
making an exact cast in copper of a living ani¬ 
mal. In describing his method he says, accord¬ 
ing to the New York Fishing Gazette: 
“I first pose the fish. Then I make a wax 
mold by spraying hot wax over the specimen. 
I use wax because it takes the finest detail, which 
plaster does not. Then I remove the fish, and 
by means of copper electroplating apparatus I 
plate the interior of the mold. By pouring hot 
water on the wax it is melted from the copper 
reproduction, which is then bathed in a thin 
solution of silver to color it white. 
“The silver plate is used to give white body 
to the reproduction so that it will not have to 
be painted on, thus eliminating one coat of paint 
which would tend to fill up detail. The great 
trouble with painting mounted fish white is that 
the white soon turns yellow, destroying the ef¬ 
fect and making the specimen worthless as a 
correct color. 
“Then, by oxidizing it with heat, the irides¬ 
cent hue of the. living fish can be exactly repro¬ 
duced, which is impossible with white paint. 
After the copper reproduction has been bathed 
in silver, it is merely necessary to paint on the 
dark colors of the fish, and the work is com¬ 
plete. You then have an exact reproduction 
of the fish that is impervious to change, and will 
remain as it is, practically forever.” 
MARKED SALMON. 
Some interesting results are being obtained in 
the Baltic by the marking of salmon, says the 
English Fish Trades Gazette. Dr. Sandman, 
the fishery inspector for Finland, in the last 
number of the “Fiskeritidskrift for Finland,” 
states that on Aug. 22, last, a salmon was got 
at Uleaborg, in the north part of the Gulf of 
Bothnia, bearing a numbered mark, and inquiry 
has proved that the fish was marked and liber¬ 
ated at the island of Bornholm on April 12 pre¬ 
ceding. The distance between the two places 
is 775 English miles, and supposing the fish 
traveled in a straight line, it must have swam at 
a mean rate of six miles per day. It has been 
known since 1751 that the salmon taken at the 
top of the Bothnia Gulf wandered to the south 
parts of the Baltic and the Prussian coast, be¬ 
cause German and Bornholm hooks have been 
found in some captured, but this is the first time 
it has been definitely proved. 
GOOD ENOUGH EVEN FOR ANGLERS. 
A short time ago the members of a well- 
known Liverpool club visited Rossett, on the 
Dee, to fish a match. After fishing patiently for 
seven hours, one of the members landed a dace 
of about 6 ounces (which was the only fish 
caught). After their good sport (?) they de¬ 
cided to call at a farm on the way to the station 
for something to drink, and were informed by 
the good lady that she only had buttermilk; so 
they decided that would do, as they were all 
“T.T.’s.” After having their fill, one of the 
members asked the damage, and were surprised 
at the answer, which was: “Nothing; we only 
give it to pigs!”—Fishing Gazette. 
DEADLY CONFETTI. 
At first sight there does not seem much con¬ 
nection between confetti and fishing. But, ac¬ 
cording to the Paris Cosmos, the confetti used 
at Chambery during the last carnival was re¬ 
sponsible for a serious mortality among the fish 
in the neighboring river. The carnival was held 
in a snowstorm, and confetti and snowflakes fell 
to the ground mingled together. This curious 
mixture was shoveled into heaps and thrown into 
the river, with the result that not long after a 
number of dead fish were found floating on its 
surface, while thousands of other fish died from 
the same cause in Lake Bourget, into which the 
river flows. It was, apparently, the coloring 
matter in the confetti which caused the mischief. 
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