CONTENTS. 



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Section D — Continued. 

 Catalogue of exhibits — Continued. 



Affordiug dye, as well as ornamental 



Affording cameo and porcelain stock 



Injurious, by destroying food-producing mollusks 



Mollusca Gasteropoda. 

 Sea Snails. 



Mollusca Lamellibranchiata 



Bivalve Shell-Fisb 



Affording food or bait 



American Oyster 



Useful Bivalves other than Oysters 



Clams, Mussels, Scallops, &c 



Use of Ornamental Bivalves other than those affording food 



Pearl-producing 



Otherwise useful and ornamental 



Injurious Bivalves 



Enemies other than Mollusca, inhabiting oyster-beds and destruct- 

 ive to Shell-Fish 



Shell-Fish industry 



Vessels and boats 



Implements for capture 



Oyster cultivation 



Methods of preserving and transporting Shell-Fish 



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Section E.— THE WHALE FISHEKY AND ITS APPLIANCES. 



By James Temple Brown. 



Introduction „ 



The collection of the implements 



DISPOSITION AND ARRANGEMENT OF OBJECTS. 



1. Models 



2. The whaleboat 



3. Harpoons, guns, and lances 



Hand-harpoons 



Whaling-guns 



Whaleman's lances - 



Hand-lances 



Gun-lances 



4. Implements used exclusively on the vessel ~ 



Chains - 



Whaleman's spades 



. Eopes used by whalemen 



Whaleman's hooks 



Blubber-toggles 



Whaleman's knives 



5. Curiosities, vessel's papers, and logs, whale-line and accessories 



6. Photographs 



COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE OF WHALES. 



Species of Whales captured 



STATISTICS OF THE WHALE FISHERY. 



Present condition of the Whale industry 



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