| Show THE BERLIN FISH EXHIBITION EXHIBI-TION Some Points Relative t this Interesting Occurrence It restng The Berlin International 1 Fishery Exhibition haspassed off with great eclat On the 17th of June the directors commissioner und ixbi bitors assembled in the Grotto of Neptune at the time designated in the printed programme 12 noin and at 1 pm The Crown Piince of Germany wa3 is attendance ti hear tne awards as read by the Hoiorarv President Herr Marcard flit awards made give evidence of tee prominent position occupied by toe United 3uer and it will be especially gratifying grati-fying to those acquainted with the distinguished naturalist Professor Spencer F Baird who has done so much to advance the iLteretd of fhb culture and of science generally in this country to hear that to him was awarded tbe first grand priza of honor given by His Majesty the German Emperor and King Prussia This prize is a magnificent crystal epergno encrusted with gold and enamel and containing a globe of tbe purest crystal crys-tal upou which is seated a fisher boy holding a dolphin aloft on a spear I is supported by silver human figures male and female tbe former with spear and conch and the latter with a large pearl the whole standing about two feat high From Forest and Stream we learn this elegant epergne will be on exhibition exhi-bition in New York when no doubt I tbat excellent journal will let ua know more about this grand prize of honor awarded to Profeeeor Baird aa chief I commissioner of fisheries of the United States To the Unite States department of finance coast survey for coat charts of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans etc and to tbe United States commission of fish and fisheries to each of these geld medals with special diplooias were awarded The exhibit of the latter department must have been specially int > ieating and instructive being a grand collection of implements imple-ments ot fish culture f hways chart models of hatching housed and pu lications Gold silver and bronze medals were awarded to a large number of American Nothing seems to have escaped recognition by those who awarded prizes and honorable honor-able mention from dried fih to living specimens strange corals oysters and then anatomy mussels pearl harofpearl radiates worms insects and their larvce as food for fib and their young crustaceans crusta-ceans amphibians turtles and tortoises salamanders waterjogs for instance frogs tcads and soaker water birds mammals living in animals water and all the products of water Of the canned preparations of the United States almost everything was shown and many prizes were awarded too numerous to insert here Among come edible cuticsitiea maybe may-be mentioned the reptiles and ba tiachiane Great American edible bull frogs bell benders and eels maudera Professor G Brown Goode an assistant t the United States fish commission received I siUer medal l fur a grct chart BJOW ing the fish culture atutions of the United State of the state fish commissions com-missions end of private fish culuriats I By the death of the late fish commissioner com-missioner for Utah Hon Albeit P Rotkwood thin territory may not I have been noticed as it might have been had thct active fiat culturer lived But we have others among us who are devoting attention to this important industry We have ample opportunity of becoming a flab raising rais-ing people and when the ucil r port of states is made out Utah will occupy her proper position in it |
