United States of America. 191 



150 of the 1500 species of fishes known to inhabit the waters of the United States are 

 ordinarily found in the markets. 



An elaborate report upon the fish^i and fisheries of the country in 1880 is now being 

 published by the Government the joint production of the Fish Commission and the Tenth 

 Census. 



G. BROWN GOODE, 



Assistant Director of the U. S. National Museum, Washington, 

 and Commissioner to the Exhibition. 



[NOTE. The participation of the United States in the Exhibition is in accordance 

 with an Act of Congress approved July 18, 1882, by the terms of which the United States 

 Commissioner of Fisheries was instructed to prepare, under the auspices of the Department of 

 State, a complete and systematic representative exhibition of the fisheries of the United States.] 



COLLECTIVE EXHIBIT OF THE UNITED STATES.* 

 ANALYSIS. 



A. Aquatic Animals and Plants beneficial or injurious to Man. 

 B. Fishing Grounds and Geographical Distribution. 

 C. Apparatus of Sea and Freshwater Fishing. 

 D. Fishing Vessels and Boats and their Fittings. 

 E. Fishermen and Anglers : Dress, Economic condition, &c. 

 F. Apparatus connected with the Whaling and Sealing industry. 

 G. Fishery Products and the apparatus and methods of their Preparation. 

 H. Fish Culture : apparatus and methods. 

 I. Investigation of the Waters : Deep Sea Eesearch, &c. 

 K. Literature of Fish, Fishing, and Fisheries. 



SECTION A. AQUATIC ANIMALS AND PLANTS OF NORTH 

 AMERICA BENEFICIAL OK INJURIOUS TO MAN. 



I. MAMMALS. 



1. Group of Fur Seals, Callorhinus ursinus, with screen of water-colour 

 sketches by Henry W. Elliott, illustrating the seal life of the Pribylov Islands ; stuffed 

 Kibbon Seal, Histriophoca equqstris ; cast of Harbor Seal : stuffed head of walrus. Odobxnus 

 obesus. 



2. Cast of Manatee, skull of HJiytina gigas, from Bering Island. 



3. Cast of White Whale, Delphinapterus ; foetal Blackfish, Globicephalus ; 



4. Casts of severaal smaller-toothed cetaceans, with skulls of the same ; 

 casts of heads of cetaceans. 



5. Collection of skins of Aquatic Birds of the United States. Exhibited 

 by the United States National Museum. 



II. BIRDS. 



f the United States. Exhil 



6. Groups of Aquatic Birds. 



* The collections here enumerated are for the most part the property of the U. S. National Museum and the U. S. 

 Fish Commission. 



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