exhibition of the ‘‘ products of the soil, mine and sea,” and as 
a result thereof there has been created, as a distinctive feat- 
WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 
ure of the Exposition, a Department of Fish and Fisheries. 
Pian anp Scope.—The classification of this depart- 
ment is intended to admit of the display in the buildings 
erected for the purpose, of materials and collections illustra- 
tive of the commercial fisheries, fish culture, angling, and 
scientific investigation bearing upon the inhabitants of the 
seas, lakes and rivers. It isthe object and purpose of this 
department to illustrate in the fullest and most graphic man- 
ner the present condition of the world’s fisheries, and also 
their history, at least for the past 400 years. It is expected . 
to show, practically side by side, the primitive methods and 
appliances used by uncivilized man, and the highest special- 
ized apparatus and methods of fishing which the science and 
intelligence of modern nations have produced. 
To deal with the matter somewhat more in detail, the ob- 
jects of fishery and fish culture, and of scientific research, will 
be shown in various ways, namely: Alive, by casts, as alco- 
holic specimens, mounted, etc. With these will be included 
fish-eating birds, and birds that have become important to the 
fisheries as furnishing supplies of food and bait. Animals 
that are enemies to fish, young and matured, such as snakes, 
lizards, frogs and other reptiles, will be represented. 
Group 38 embraces ten classes, in which are included 
materials and apparatus employed in sea fishing and 
angling. This group provides for the history of fishing; fish- 
ery laws and legislation, fishery commerce; implements used 
in ancient times, or reproductions of the same; reports and 
literature upon fish and fisheries, as well as statistics. 
Gear used in the trawl, herring, long line, hand line and 
all modes or systems of fishing; lines and rigged gear are in- 
cluded in this group. Other classes of the same group em- 
brace all known apparatus and appliances employed in the 
prosecution of the commercial sea fisheries, and also those 
used by anglers in sport fishing for marine species. Vessels 
and boats used for conducting fishery operations or for an- 
gling are provided for in the last class of thjs group. | 
