196 ANIMAL RESOURCES AND FISHERIES OP UNITED STATES. 



Prepared frona liaia* olT itinininafls. 



Hair of horses used in Aveaving furniture-covers, crinoline-skirts, 



and bags for pressing oil. 

 Hair of buffalo used in plaiting ropes, lariats, &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 froMi feathers ol* 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 [Bomhijx mori). 

 Silk of Samia Scrojyia^ Samia poli/phcmus, and other native American 



moths. 

 (Silk of exotic moths other than Bomhyx mori, such as the tussali 

 {Bomhyx i)crnyi and Bornbyx mylitta), the moonga {Saturnia asm- 

 mensis), the joree {Bomhyx religiosa), the ena or arindy [Bomhyx 

 cynthia).) 

 Fabrics woven by the insects themselves, as Tinea ;padilla. 

 Silk of spiders. 



Prepared from byssus of inolkisks. 



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

 other moUusks.) ' 



