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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo16amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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MY FiailT WITH THE DEVILFISH 007 were made fast to the licad of tlie fish and anchored to a tree two hundred yards inland, and I then appHed a very powerful device, using man power at the end of a long lever, not unlike the horse power device used in pulling stiunps, and slowly the big devilfish came up out of the sea. I had ready fifteen hundred pounds of plaster of Paris, many bales of excelsior, and a number of barrels of fresh water. I had also erected a twenty-foot tower from which to take photographs and I attempted to hoist the parts of the fish on this tower for weighing; but my weighing device was not sufficiently powerful for obtaining acciu'ately the weight of such a large specimen. The entire day was devoted to making the cast and to preserving parts of the speci- men in three hundred gallons of formalin solution. From the time that T first struck the fisli on the nioruing of April 11, until the photographing, casting, and preserving of the fish were completed on the night of the twelfth, there had been no time to att(>nd to anything else; btit on the thirteenth, with a feeling of intense satisfaction, I sent by boat to Punta Gorda a telegram to the American Mu- seum of Natural History telling of the successful issue. The next few days were devoted to making crates and packing the cast in excelsior. The parts of the specimen were also taken out of formalin solution and packed in excelsior which had been dippetl in formalin. The big thirty-five- foot timbers and the rollers were then used in loading the crates on a large l)oat which had been brought in as close as possible to the beach, and I and my whole crew accompanied them to Punta Gorda and assisted in loading them on a car, addressed to the American Museiun.
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