Word: fishings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...date of the American Museum's opening of its Hall of Fishes was a sad mischance. Guest of honor was to have been Dr. Bashford Dean, retired and honorary curator of ichthyology, who had planned the fish collection. An astonishingly different interest of his was in arms & armor. He knew more about arms & armor than any man in this country and aimed to make the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art rank next after those in Paris, Madrid and Denver. Rarely has a man held active curatorship in two great museums, and of such separated fields...
Sharks and turtle are dead & stuffed, mounted realistically to show museum visitors what roving sea life is like. That exhibit is the best and key of a whole Hall of Fishes of the World, formally opened in the museum last week. Groups represent lake, river and ocean fish life, from trout to rays (flattened sharks). Each scene makes the visitor feel as if he were under water, peering inquisitively...
...Proud though the American Museum is of its fish and animal collections, it is prouder of (and more famed for) its bird and dinosaur collections. Pride of other U. S. museums: Chicago's Field, botanical material; Washington's National, technical progress; San Francisco's Golden Gate, habitat groups of North American animals; Denver's Colorado, arrow heads and prehistoric bison: Washington's Red Cross, war material: Yale, fossil vertebrates; Harvard, birds and glass flowers...
Peculiar is the fact that only one species of high altitude fish can live in Bolivia's famed inland sea Lake Titicaca (see Map) 12,000 feet above Pacific sea level. When low altitude fish are poured into Lake Titicaca they refuse to breed...
...that evening. Mr. Hoover trolled first with a spinner, then with a silver minnow, and watched the launch's wake for the mighty splash of marlin, yellowtail or amberjack. But the splashes that came were comparatively small-a 15-pound dolphin, a 5-pound Spanish mackerel. A third fish, the "biggest one," got away. Beside Mr. Hoover in his launch stood and fished grey-templed Mark Sullivan, political pundit of the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune. Just as Mr. Hoover's "biggest one" struck, Pundit Sullivan hooked a small but active dolphin. Unaware of any call...