The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . about on oysterbeds; the great sooty albatross; the tiny stormy petrel (or motherCareys chicken) that roams with tireless wing to meet the oceanvoyager on every sea, and the great herring gull that heralds withhoarse screams the approach of schools of fish, are only a few ofthe many specimens gathered here. Even the extinct species arenot forgotten. The Great Auk [AUa impennis) is pictorially repre- 214 FISHERIES. sented. It is interesting from the fact that in the early days ofAmerican colonization It was enormously abundant and furnishedfood
The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . about on oysterbeds; the great sooty albatross; the tiny stormy petrel (or motherCareys chicken) that roams with tireless wing to meet the oceanvoyager on every sea, and the great herring gull that heralds withhoarse screams the approach of schools of fish, are only a few ofthe many specimens gathered here. Even the extinct species arenot forgotten. The Great Auk [AUa impennis) is pictorially repre- 214 FISHERIES. sented. It is interesting from the fact that in the early days ofAmerican colonization It was enormously abundant and furnishedfood to the fishermen of those days, though it finally succumbed tothe rapacity of the feather hunters. Even the plant life has notbeen neglected, and here and there those Interested may getglimpses of many beautiful forms that lend additional Interest to thecollection. And who will tell how much of labor of love Is em-bodied In the arrangement of delicate fronds of sea weed ; of thegrouping of fish, birds and shells, etc., around a beautiful picture. MODEIv OF INDIAN FISHERMEN. PART OF MINNESOTA EXHIBIT. of their natural home, as In the case of the exhibit of the HighSchool of San Diego, or in the deft arrangement of common beachshells, sea weeds, Into groupings that give all the effect of apainted picture at a little distance ? Dried specimens, stuffed, cast,painted, photographed or even skeletonized, as In the case of a bighumpback whale from Puget Sound, pass in review, a series ofobject lessons In natural history, not only instructive from a stand-point of specific differentiation, but particularly impressive whenconsidered In their relation to commerce and the welfare of man-kind. Maps of fishing grounds, in river, lake or ocean, show where thevarious objects of fishery exist in the greatest abundance. These FISHERIES. 215 reofions are the natural resorts of the toilers who venture out togather the harvests of the deep in all climes. Here, then, we cantrace the limitatio
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