--- description: William K. Vanderbilt will build this summer on his estate at Little Neck, Long Island, overlooking the Sound, the largest privately owned marine museum in the world. Here he will house his more... title: Science: Fish image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Science: Fish by [TIME](/author/time/) Apr 7, 1924 5:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Apr 7, 1924 5:00 AM CUT William K. Vanderbilt will build this summer on his estate at Little Neck, Long Island, overlooking the Sound, the largest privately owned marine museum in the world. Here he will house his more than 400 rare sea specimens caught and mounted in the last 20 years in many cruises on his yacht Ara. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6896666/science-fish/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6896666/science-fish/"},"headline":"Science: Fish","datePublished":"1924-04-07T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T12:29:39.022Z","description":"William K. Vanderbilt will build this summer on his estate at Little Neck, Long Island, overlooking the Sound, the largest privately owned marine museum in the world. Here he will house his more...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6896666/science-fish/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6896666/science-fish/","name":"Science: Fish"}}]}] ```