FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 45 



J. WALKER FEWKES, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massa- 

 chusetts : 

 Publications on marine invertebrates. (60.) 



FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING COMPANY, 39 and 41 Park Row, 

 New York City : 

 A series of nineteen bound volumes of the weekly paper Forest and 

 Stream and Eod and Gun. (60.) 



AL. FOSTER, New York City: 



Placards advertising fishing excursions in the vicinity of JSTew York. 

 (3.) 



MRS. CAPT. J. H. FREEMAN, Wellfleet, Massachusetts: 

 Crayon sketch of Mackerel. (51.) 

 Oil painting of Salmon Trout. (51.) 



FULTON MARKET FISH-MONGERS' ASSOCIATION, New York City: 

 Portraits of its members. (57.) 



MRS. E. A. GANNETT, Edgartown, Massachusetts: 

 Log-book. (6.) 



JOHN D. S. GILES, Brig " George and Mary" : 



Dried potato carried in pocket during a sixteen months' voyage in 

 Hudson Bay. (21.) 



GLOUCESTER ISINGLASS & GLUE COMPANY, Gloucester, Massachusetts : 

 Exhibit of Liquid Isinglass for adhesive paper, labels, and envel- 

 opes ; Isinglass for court plasters ; Pure Fish Glues (hard 

 and liquid, free from salt), for leather belting, roll cots, 

 and card felting, &c. (29.) 



Extracts from the Catalogue prepared by the Company. 



No. 1. Sample of the stock that is selected for making glue just as it comes 



from the salt fish. The Cod and Cusk skins are preferred to any 



others as they contain a larger percentage of glue or isinglass. 



Last, year there were about 1,500 tons of this kind of stock used 



in Gloucester for glue and isinglass, at a value of $15 per ton. 

 No. 2. Sample of Cod skins, after being cleaned and the salt removed, 



ready to be made into isinglass or liquid glue. 

 No. 3. Sample of Cusk skins, after being cleaned and the salt removed, 



ready to be made into glue. 

 No. 4. Sample of Hake skins, after the salt has been removed and cleaned. 



The percentage of glue is small in these skins. See samples of 



liquid and dry. 

 No. 5. Sample of Haddock skins prepared for glue. The percentage is 



small. See sample of liquid and dry. 

 No. 6. Sample of Pollock skins, after being cleaned and salt removed. The 



percentage is small. See sample. 



