196 ANIMAL RESOURCES AND FISHERIES OF UNITED STATES. 



Prepared A*oin hair of iiiamiiiaS^. 



Hair of horses used in weaving- furniture-covers, crinoline-skirts^ 



and bags for pressing oil. 

 Hair of buffalo used in plaiting ropes, lariats, «S:c. 

 Fur of mole used in felting. 



Beaver (castor) fur with specimens of the felt cloths, hats, &c. 

 (Neutria-fur used in felting and in the manufacture of hats.) 

 Musquash fur used in felting. 



Possum hair with fabrics of Indian and other manufacture. 

 Fur of rabbit and hare used in felting, with specimens of hats and 



cloths. 

 Whalebone fiber used in weaving cloth covers for telescopes, &c. 



Prepared from feathers of birds. 



Cloths woven from feather (China). 



Prepared from silk of insects. (This collection should in- 

 clude specimens of the cocoons, the raw silk, the spun silk, and of the 

 various fabrics, plain and figured silks, satins and satinettes, shawls^ 

 damasks, brocades, crapes, and ribbons.) 

 Silk of common silk- worm [Bomhyx mori). 

 Silk of Samiacecropia, Saniia polyphcmus, smd other niitive Americ&jo. 



moths. 

 (Silk of exotic moths other than Bomhyx 7nori, such as the tussah 

 {Bomhyx pernyi and Bomhyx mylitta), the moonga {Saturnia ojisa- 

 mensis), the joree {Bomhyx 7'eligiosa), the ena or arindy {Bomhyx 

 cyntliia).) 

 Fabrics woven by the insects themselves, as Tinea padiUa. 

 Silk of spiders. 



Prepared from toyssus of molltisks. 



(Fabrics woven from byssus of the wing-shell {Pinna rwbilis) and 

 other mollusks.) 



