386 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



The actual number of men employed in 1874 amounted to 

 67,029, and of vessels of all kinds to 20,399, with an aggre- 

 gate of 102,083 tons. Revue 3Iaritime et Coloiiiale. 



EEPOET OF BUREAU OF STATISTICS. 



The annual report of Dr. Young, Chief of the Bureau of 

 Statistics of Commerce and Navigation, for the fiscal year 

 endhig June 30th, 1875, has been published as a portion of 

 the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, and forms an 

 octavo of about 1100 pages. As usual, it is divided into 

 three parts : first, Commerce ; second. Immigration ; third. 

 Navigation. Under the head of commerce is given the usu- 

 al series of tables of domestic and foreign imports and ex- 

 ports, with the duties levied, home consumption, shipments 

 of domestic and foreign commodities and lumber, etc. 



The products of the American fisheries and the imports 

 from foreign ports are also given in the sei'ies of tables. 

 The value of the American whale-fishery for the fiscal year 

 mentioned is given at $2,841,002, this including 1,090,951 

 gallons of sperm and 1,414,186 gallons of whale oil, 328,217 

 pounds of whalebone, etc. The cod-fisheries are estimated 

 at 756,543 hundred-weight, with a value of $3,664,496 ; the 

 herring - fisheries at 527,633 hundred- weight, valued at 

 $2,655,623. The entire yield of the American fisheries other 

 than tlie whale-fishery is placed at $10,747,579, and the total 

 value, including the wliale-fisheries, at $13,588,581. 



Comparing these tables of the Avhale-fisheries with those 

 given by Messrs. Bartlett and Son, of New Bedford, for the 

 actual imports during the year 1875, we find, according to the 

 last-mentioned authority, that there were taken 42,617 barrels 

 of sperm-oil, 34,594 barrels of v/hale-oil, and 372,303 pounds 

 of whalebone. 



GLOUCESTER FISHERIES FOR 1875. 



The Ccqye Ann Family Almanac for 1876, published by the 

 Gloucester Telegraph, contains some interesting notes in re- 

 gard to the progress of the fisheries of that noted town. 

 The extent of these may be judged from the fact that the 

 total value of the fisheries for 1875 for the port of Gloucester 

 amounted to $3,909,500, that of the whole district of Glouces- 

 ter being $4,624,000. The whole number of vessels em- 



