340 THE AMERICAN WHALEMAN 



Completed December 6, 1852, Printed as part of House Executive Document 

 No. 23, 32nd Congress, 2nd Session. 



Grinnell, Joseph, "Speech on the Tariff, With Statistical Tables of the Whale 

 Fishery." Washington, 1844. A sixteen-page pamphlet which provides a 

 cross-section statistical view of the whaling industry on January i, 1844. 

 Originally in the form of a speech delivered in the House of Representatives 

 on May 1, 1844, and reported in the Congressional Globe, 28th Congress, ist 

 Session, Vol. XHI, p. 570. See Appendix D for several tables and for further 

 explanatory matter. 



Brown, J. T., "The Whale Fishery and Its Appliances." Bulletin No. 27, 

 U. S. National Museum. Washington, 1884. 



Seward, William H., "The Whale Fishery, and American Commerce in the 

 Pacific Ocean." Speech delivered in the U. S. Senate on July 29, 1852, and 

 reported in the Congressional Globe, 32nd Congress, 1st Session, Vol. XXIV, 

 Part III, pp. 1973-1976. Also reprinted at Washington in 1852. 



Maury, M. F., (Lieutenant, United States Navy), "The Winds and Currents 

 of the Sea." National Observatory, Washington, 1851. Contains material 

 regarding the migratory habits of whales. 



HussEY and Robinson (Printers and Publishers), "Catalogue of Nantucket 

 Whalers, and Their Voyages From 1815 to 1870." Nantucket, 1876. 



Trustees of the Peabody Academy of Science, "The Whaling Industry. Ex- 

 hibition of Objects Illustrating the Whaling Industry and the Natural His- 

 tory of Whales." Salem, Mass., 1908. Contains list of Essex County whal- 

 ing vessels, list of whaling log-books in the Essex Institute, and list of 

 works on whales and whaling in the Salem Public Library. 



Enderby, Charles, "Proposal for Re-Establishing the British Southern Whale 

 Fishery, Through the Medium of a Chartered Company, and in Combination 

 with the Colonization of the Auckland Islands." — Revision and enlargement 

 of a letter written to a Mr. T. R. Preston on October 31, 1846. London, 

 1847. Contains some valuable comparisons between British and American 

 whaling. 



, "New Bedford and Fairhaven Signal Book." New Bedford, 1850. A 



sample of the flags and semaphore telegraph codes which were used in this 

 and other ports. 



Crapo, H. H., "The New Bedford Directory. — With List of Vessels in the 

 Whale Fishery." New Bedford, 1841. 



Martin, J. S., "Photographs of Old Whaleships and Wharf Scenes. — One 

 Hundred Photographs." New Bedford Studio of J. S. Martin. 



KiRBY, H. S., "Outfits for a Whaling Voyage." New Bedford, not dated. A 

 pamphlet list furnished by a New Bedford ship-chandler to his customers. 

 See Appendix G for a summary of the articles listed. 



V — Secondary Historical Accounts 



Starbuck, Alexander, "History of the American Whale Fishery from Its 

 Earliest Inception to the Year 1876." Waltham, Massachusetts, 1878. (Also 

 printed as Volume IV of the Report of the U. S. Commission of Fish and 

 Fisheries for 1875-1876). 



Macy, Obed, "History of Nantucket and of the Whale Fishery." Boston, 1835. 



Starbuck, Alexander, "History of Nantucket, County, Island, and Town." 

 Boston, 1924. 



Ricketson, Daniel, "History of New Bedford." New Bedford, 1858. 



ScAMMON, C. M., "Marine Mammals of the Northwestern Coast of North 

 America, with an Account of the American Whale Fishery." San Francisco 

 and New York, 1874. A valuable work written by a trained observer. 



Jenkins, J. T., "History of the Whale Fisheries: From the Basque Fisheries 

 of the loth Century to the Finner Whale at the Present Time." London, 



