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ANIMAL RESOURCES AND FISHERIES OF UNITED STATES. 91 



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29299. Shot-ban-el for Maynard's rifle ; 32 inches, .64 calibre. Massachusetts 



Arms Company, Chicopee Falls, Mass. 

 25873. Six-shooting rifle; 44-inch calibre. Colt's Fire-Arms Manufacturing 



Company, Hartford, Conn. 

 25889. Carbine. King's imi^rovement. (Patented March 29, 1866 ; October 



16, 1860. Model 1873. Calibre .44.) Winchester Repeating 



Arms, New Haven, Conn. 



25248. Breech-loading siiorting-rifle. (Patented October 17, 1866. Reissued 



June 25, 1872 ; Dec. 26, 1865. Reissued Oct. 1, 1867 ; May 15, 1836 ; 

 July 16, 1872.) Whitney Arms Company, Whitueyville, Conn. 



25249. Breech-loading sporting-rifle. Phoenix calibre, 44. Whitney Arms 



Company, Whitneyville, Conn. 

 25892. Six-shooting revolver. 45 calibre. (Patented Sept. 19, 1871 ; July 2, 

 1872. ) Colt's Fire-Arms Manufacturing Comj)any, Hartford, Conn. 



Whalin^-g'un!^. 



24986. C. C. Brand's improved Tvhaling-gun. Patented June 22, 1852. For 

 use with C. C. Brand's imj)roved bomb-lance. 24987. Powder-flaslc 

 with charger. 24988. Wad-cutter. 24989. Wad-cutter (inside). 

 24992. Prepared wads. 24990,24991. Screw-drivers. C.C. Brand, 

 Norwich, Conn. 



24993-97, C. C. Brand's improved bomb-lance. Patented June 22, 1859. For 

 use with C. C. Brand's improved whaling-gun. 24997. Exploded 

 lance, 24998. Lance-hook (for drawing charge). C. C. Brand, 

 Norwich, Conn. 



25251. E. Pierce's harjioon-gun. Patented 1865. U. S. Fish Commission. 



26897. Cunningham & Hogan's breech-loading bomb-gun, with exiilosivo 

 lances. William Lewis, New Bedford, Mass. 



24. (Accessory.) Ammunition and its preparation. 

 Explosives. 



Gunpowder. 

 Gun-cotton. 

 Percussion jDowder: 



Cax)s. 



Needle percussion. 



Primers. 

 Wood j)owder. 

 Dynamite or giant-powder. 

 Mtroglycerine. 

 Dualine. 

 Lithofracteur. 

 Colonia powder. 

 Other exx)losives. 



For obvious reasons this series could not be exhibited. 



