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Bean, Tarleton H. — Condition and methods of administration of the 

 department of fishes in the U. S. National Museum in 1882. 



(Report Asst. Director U. S. Nat. Mus., n, 1882, pp. 19-21; 49-50; 87-96.) 



Brown, James Temple. — Great International Fisheries Exhibition; 

 ' London; 1883. United States of America. (E.) The Whale Fish- 

 ery and its Appliances. Washington : Government Printing Office. 

 1883. Svo. pp. 1-116. 



Contains (a) classification of apparatus used in American whale fishery ; 

 (6) catalogue of whaling apparatus sent by United States to London, includ- 

 ing : 1. Apparatus used by the white man ; 2. Apparatus used by the Cape 

 Flattery Indians, with a brief account of these Indians, their manners, habits, 

 and customs ; 3. Whaling and sealing apparatus used by Eskimo. 



Some notes on whales. 



(Bull. U. S. Fish Com., vol. in, p. 411.) 



Clark, A. Howard. — Statistics of the whale fishery. 



(In United States Catalogue of Londoa Fisheries Exhibition (section E). 

 "The whale fishery and its appliances," pp. 26-29, inclusive.) 



Reviews the past and present extent of the American whale fishery, gives 

 the distribution of the fleet, the relative importance of the various whaling 

 grounds during the years 1870 to 1880, and exhibits statistical tables showing 

 (1) the number and tonnage of vessels engaged in the fishery for the years 

 1870-1880, (2) the value of sperm-oil, whale-oil, and whalebone landed by the 

 American fleet, the value of the consumption in the United States, and the 

 value of the exportation annually from 1870 to 1880, and (3) the number of 

 barrels of sperm and whale oil and pounds of whalebone landed by the Amer- 

 ican fleet, the quantities consumed in the United States, and the quantities 

 exported annually from 1870 to 1880. 



International angling tournament. 



(Forest and Stream, New York, June 28, 1883.) 



Letter from London, giving an account of an angling tournament at Welsh 

 Harp, near London, June 11, 1883. 



London Fisheries Exhibition. 



(Chelsea Record, Chelsea, Mass., July 8, 1883.) 



Letter from London, descriptive of incidents connected with the Interna- 

 tional Fisheries Exhibition. 



The United States display at the London Exhibition. 



(Boston Herald, September 9, 1883.) 



Communication concerning the exhibit of the United States at the Interna- 

 tional Fisheries Exhibition. 



Methods of packing [mackerel] and inspection laws. 



(Materials for a history of the mackerel fishery, 1883, pp. 137-161 ; Rep. U. 

 S. Fish Com., Part ix, for 1881, pp. 227-252.) 



Statistics of inspection of mackerel from 1804 to 1880. 



(Materials for a history of the mackerel fishery, 1883, pp. 162-213 ; Rep. U. 

 8. Fish Com., Part ix, for 1881, pp. 252-307.) 



