154 FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



10. OxnER MATERIALS FROM INVERTEBRATES. 



** Flexible materialn. 



11. Leathers. (Embraciug the hides in a rough state, in the various 

 stages of dressing, and manufactured into shoe-leather, parch- 

 ment, vellum, binders' leather, thongs, &c.) 



PEEPAEED FEOM EEPTILE SKINS. 



Alligator leather. 



16810. Salted skin of alligator (Allujaior misslssij)piensis). Upper Saiut John's 



River, Florida. G. Brown Goode. 

 16810. Tanned skin of alligator. Upper Saiut .lohn's River, Florida. G 



Brown Goode. 

 24796. Cigar-case, made from skin of alligator {Alligator nn'ssissijyjicnsis) 



"Russet finish." Schayer Bros., Boston, Mass. 

 24702. Lady's satchel, made from skin of alligator (Alligator mississijyjnensis) 



"Russet finish." Schayer Bros., Boston, Mass. 



24793. Slippers, made from the skin of alligator (Alligator mi88issip2>if>f8is) 



"Russet finish." Schayer Bros., Boston, Mass. 



24794. Slippers, made from skin of alligator (Alligator mississij)picnsis) 



"Black finish." 'Schayer Bros., Boston, Mass. 

 26068. Riding-boots, made from skiu of alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) 



H. & A. Mahreuholz, New York City. 

 . Gaiters made from skiu of the alligator (Alligator tnississippieiisis) 



H. & A. Mahreuholz, New York City. 



PEEPAEED FEOM FISH-SKINS. 



Skins of eels {Anguilla vulgaris). 



25285. Eel-sliius. Market, Washington, D. C. G. Brown Goode. 



These eel-skins arc highly esteemed by the Virginia negroes as a 

 cure for rheumatism. 



Sturgeon leather. 



2601:]. Tanned skin of sturgeon (Acipenser ruhicundus). Wernich & Wau- 

 del, Waukegan, 111. 



Cod-fish leather. 

 Salmon leather. 



12. Isinglass. 



Isinglass (ichthyocolla), made from air-bladders and shins of fishes 

 and used in the manufacture of fine glues and sizes, adhesive and 

 court plasters, diamond cement, imitation glass, and table-jelly 

 and confectionery (see under!) 1, D), in refining wines and liquors, 

 in adulterating milk, in fixing the luster of artificial pearls, and 

 in lustering silk ribbons (embracing the dried bladders and the 

 manufactured i)r()(lu<'ts) in their grades of "lyre," "heart-shaped," 

 "leaf," and "boolv" isinglass. 



Isinglass from sounds of cod and hake. 



39162. Isinglass. (1st quality.) Haskins Bros., Boston, Mass. 



39163. Isinglass. (2d quality.) " " " " 



39164. Isinglass. (:!d (puilily.) " " " " 



