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Excerpt from The Museums of the FutureOur own Centennial Exhibition in 1876 was almost as great a revela tion to the people of the United States. The thoughts of the country were opened to many things before undreamed of. One thing we may regret - that we have no such wide-spread system of museums as that which has developed in the motherland, with South Kensington as its administrative center.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundr...

Excerpt from The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United StatesIt is now nearly four hundred years Since these grounds were first fished upon by Europeans, and their resources are still unfailing, but the fishing interests have been mainly transferred to the New World, France alone of European countries having continued to send fishing vessels across the Atlantic down to 1880. Since then, however, the Portuguese have begun to exhibit so...

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Excerpt from American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North America, With Especial Reference to Habits and Methods of Capture The work was the summary of the observations and reports Of a large corps of experts in ichthyology as well as fisheries and economics, originally employed by the Census Bureau. It contained a fund of information that could not be found in any other work accessible to the general public, and...

This antiquarian volume contains a history of the menhaden, published under the auspices of the American Fisheries Association in 1880, with an account of the agricultural uses of fish. The menhaden, also known as mossbunker, bunker, and pogy, is any forage fish of the genera 'Brevoortia' and 'Ethmidium', two genera of marine fish in the family 'Clupeidae'. This book will be of considerable value to those with a interest in this species of fis...

This excellent genealogy identifies well over five thousand individuals in the male line through eighteen generations in England and the United States. The family here studied is the Goode family of Virginia, introduced to America prior to 1660 by the immigrant John Goode. John was born in the vicinity of Cornwall, England, between 1620 and 1630. Whitby refers to the plantation that John established in Virginia, a corruption of the spelling of...

Excerpt from A History of the Menhaden Menhaden appeared in Washington (d. C.) markets February 25, 1879, nearly three weeks in advance of the branch-herring, four in advance of the shad, and eight before the glut-herrin g. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

Excerpt from American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North America, With Especial Reference to Habits and Methods of Capture The work was the summary of the observations and reports Of a large corps of experts in ichthyology as well as fisheries and economics, originally employed by the Census Bureau. It contained a fund of information that could not be found in any other work accessible to the general public, and...

Excerpt from The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States It is now nearly four hundred years Since these grounds were first fished upon by Europeans, and their resources are still unfailing, but the fishing interests have been mainly transferred to the New World, France alone of European countries having continued to send fishing vessels across the Atlantic down to 1880. Since then, however, the Portuguese have begun to exhibit ...

Excerpt from The Literary Labors of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 28: An Address Delivered Before the American Philosophical Society at the Commemoration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Decease of Its Illustrious Founder and First President, April 17, 1890 When the New World sent Franklin to Europe, England and Franco received him, without question, as the equal of their own greatest men. Lavoisier, Turgot and Raynal, Button, Rousseau and C...

Excerpt from A Review of the Fishery Industries of the United States and the Work of the U. S. Fish Commission The first American colony, planted at Jamestown in 1609, owed its permanence chiefly to the abundance of fish and oysters in the adjacent rivers. Its founder, Captain John Smith, was the pioneer of the American fisheries, and in his writings devotes many pages to the discussion of the methods by which they should be carried on. He wa...

Excerpt from The Published Writings of Dr. Charles GirardGirard, charles. On the Genus Cottus Au'ct. Proceedings Boston Society Natural History, iii, 183-90, 1849.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving...

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