202 United States of America. 



Porpoises, used in the arts, for lubricating, painting, &e. ; Black-fish and Porpoise jaw oil, 

 used in lubricating fine machinery, watches, clocks, and guns ; Grampus oil, used for lubricating 

 fine machinery ; crude and refined Sperm oil, used for illuminating, lubricating, as an emollient 

 in medicine, for lip-salves, and in the manufacture of spermaceti ; crude and refined spermaceti, 

 with samples of candles from it : Alligator oil, made in Florida ; oil from various species of 

 fish, as Sunfisb, Mola rotunda, currier's cod liver oil, medicinal cod liver oil ; stearine from 

 liver-oil of codfish ; oil from liver of Cusk, Brosmius brosme, Haddock, Melanogrammus segle- 

 tinus, Pollock, Pollacliius virens, &c. ; Menhaden oil, used in currying leather, in rope-making, 

 for lubricating, for adulterating linseed-oil, as a paint oil, and exported to Europe for use in 

 the manufacture of soap and for smearing sheep ; Oulachan oil, used by the Indians of the 

 North-west coast for food and illumination ; oil of Squid, Ommastreplies illecebrosus. 



150. Mammal perfumes ; ambergris from sperm whale, used in the prepara- 

 tion of fine perfumery. 



151. Chemical products and agents employed in the arts and medicine ; fluid 

 extract of seawrack, Fucus vesiculosus, extensively sold under the name of " Antil'at." 



152. Fertilizers in the preparation of which fish are used, including Menhaden 

 guano, crude and ground, guano made from fish skins, and from fish heads and bones. Series 

 of preparations illustrating the manufacture of soluble Pacific guano, including crude and 

 crushed, and ground South Carolina phosphates ; crude Navassa phosphate, Sicily sulphur for 

 the manufacture of sulphuric acid ; Stassfurth kanite, used in preservation of scrap, crude Men- 

 haden scrap, and scrap dried by the Hogle patent drying machine. (See exhibits of Quinnipi 

 Fertilizer Company, The George W. Miles Company, Winfield S. Duuan, W. A. Abbe, and 

 others.) 



SECTION H. FISH GUI/TUBE. 



XXXV. APPARATUS AND METHODS OF FISH CULTURE. 



153. A map showing the operations of the United States Fish Commission 

 from 1871 to the present time, the location of the hatching stations belonging to the United 

 States Fish Commission, and to the Fish Commissions of the several States ; and the dates of the 

 establishment of the State Commissions. It also shows the locations where young fish have 

 been planted, each species being designated by a peculiar symbol : 



LIST OF HATCHING STATIONS. The following is a list of the hatching stations operated 

 by the United States Fish Commission in 1883 : (1) Grand Lake Stream, Maine, station 

 for collecting eggs of the Schoodic Salmon Salmo solar var. selago. (2) Bueksport, Me., sta- 

 tion for collecting and hatching eggs of the Atlantic Salmon, Salmo salar, and for hatching 

 eggs of White-fish, Coregonus clupeiformis, to be distributed in the waters of the State. (3) 

 Wood's Holl, Mass. Permanent coast-station, which serves as a basis of operation for the 

 scientific investigations of the Commission, and as a hatching station for eggs of the Cod, Gadus 

 morhua, and other sea-fishes. (4) Gold Springs Harbour, Long Island, New York. Station 

 for hatching eggs of various species of Salmonidse for distribution in New York and vicinity. 



(5) Havre de Grace, Maryland Station, located on Battery Island, in the Susquehanna River, 

 for the purpose of collecting and hatching eggs of the Shad, Clupea sapidissima. (6) Washing- 

 ton, District of Columbia, (a) National Carp Ponds. Ponds for the propagation of the three 

 varieties of the Carp Cyprinus carpio, and the Gold-fish, Cyprinus auratus, the Golden Ides, 

 Idus melanotus var. auratus, and the Tench, Tinea vulgaris. (b) Arsenal Ponds. Ponds for 

 the propagation of Carp Cyprinus carpio. (c) Navy Yard. Station for collecting and hatching 

 eggs of the Shad, Clupea sapidissima, (d5) Central hatching station. A station fully equipped 

 for scientific experiments connected with the propagation of fishes. The station is also provided 

 with apparatus for hatching the eggs of all the more important species, including light, heavy, 

 and adhesive eggs. It is the principal distributing station of the Fish Commission, for both 

 eggs and young fish to all portions of the United States. (7) Wytheville, Virginia. A station 

 for hatching eggs of Brook-trout, Salvelinus fontinalis, and California Trout, Salmo irideus. 

 (8) Saint Jerome's Creek, Point Lookout, Maryland. A station for the artificial propagation 

 of the Oyster, Ostrea virginiana, the Spanish Mackerel, Scomberomorus maculatus, and the 

 Banded Porgy, Chtetodipterus faber. (9) Avoca, North Carolina, A station on Albemarle 



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