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to interest the American and European public, have again been 
selected and made the subjects of a somewhat exhaustive display. 
Of each of these kinds, in addition to the alcoholic specimens or 
photographs, are given a map showing the distribution of the species, 
the varions devices employed for catching it such as hooks, traps, 
lines and nets, together with methods of culture where there are such, 
and finally the different articles manufactured from it. In some 
cases where this full treatment is not possible or essential, only a part 
of the programme has been carried out. The following subjects have 
been treated in this full manner, viz :—the Whales and Dolphins, the 
edible Turtles, the “ Tai,’ the Mackerel, the Tunny, the Bonito, the 
Cod, the Soles and Flounders, the Carp (with the Goldfish), the 
Salmon, the “ Ayu,’ the Sardine, the Herring, the Oyster, the 
Shrimps and Lobsters, and the Algae before referred to. 
By the adoption of this plan, it is hoped that a fairly representa- 
tive display of the fishing industries of Japan has been secured. 
The models of nets, boats, etc., have been made with the strictest 
fidelity to the originals, even in minute details so that the actual 
things may again be constructed from them. Only as it is impossible 
to reduce the size of the meshes in nets on the same scale with 
other parts of the models, the proportions of meshes in different parts 
of large nets are alone intended to be displayed. 
When the size of the meshes is given in the description of the 
nets, it is to be understood as the distance between every two knots 
on the same straight line, when they are pulled as far apart as possible. 
The prices given in the following pages are all wholesale prices 
in the Japanese market. A yen (=100 sen) is equal at the present 
rate of exchange to $ 0.653 U.S. gold. 
The numbering of all exhibits, whether they are specimens, 
models, or manufactured articles, is consecutive and without distine- 
tion. In the present catalogue the number and name of the first 
exhibit belonging to any one species is printed in heavy-faced type. 
