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Bien, Hawaii - Yellow Tang [Zebrasoma Flavescens] - This colorful fish chromolithograph is from Julius Bien, David Starr Jordan & Barton Warren Evermann's The Aquatic Resources of the Hawaiian Islands (also issued as Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission. Vol. XXIII . The work was published in Washington, D.C. by the Government Printing Office in 1905. The work was based on specimens collected by the United States Fish Commission. It was produced by two leading marine scientists and illustrated fish of the Hawaiian Islands. The commission ”launched and carried out the first sustained study of marine biology in the United States. It was instrumental in the artificial propagation of fish, thus increasing the country's fish resources, and concentrating attention on the preservation of natural resources.” (Archives Center of the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of American History) Paper Size: ~ 10 1/2” by 7 1/4” Paper Type or Special Features: Color Chromolithograph