52 FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



MARSHALL H. HOLMES, 226 N. Fourth street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 

 Holmes' Life-Preserving Mattress and Berth — Continued. 



berth is drawn out with its contents and dropped or lowered over- 

 board. The buoyancy is very great. The mattress, containing 

 solid cork and cork shavings, will support the largest person in 

 the water. There is also a central hole in the center of the mat- 

 tress, through which the occupant can go and seat himself or her- 

 self on a saddle underneath, which throws all the upper part of 

 the body out of the water and gives the person the free use of the 

 oars, which are chained fast to the berth. The whole device 

 weighs from 32 to 35 pounds; is the full size of a berth, audit 

 slides on cleats in the stateroom the same as a drawer. This in- 

 vention has been adopted as a life-preserver by the United States 

 Board of Supervising Inspectors of Steamboats, and resolutions 

 been adopted by the Boards of Trade and Chambers of Commerce 

 and Maritime Exchanges of the principal cities of the United 

 States, among which are New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, 

 Saint Paul, Cincinnati, Saint Louis, aud Detroit, and has the hearty 

 endorsement of practical vessel-owners in all of these cities. The 

 present address of the inventor, M. H. Holmes, is 226 N. Fourth 

 street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. — (Holmes.) 



WILLIAM J- HOOPER SOUS (Baltimore Twine and Net Company), Balti- 

 more, Maryland : 

 Exhibit of netting. (8.) 



W. T. HORNADAY, United States National Museum, Washington, District 

 of Columbia : 

 Specimens of Taxidermy. (53.) 

 Walrus Head. 

 Quinuat Salmon (in collective exhibit). 



WILLIAM HUME, Astoria, Oregon : 



Cooked preparation in cans. (26.) 

 Canned Salmon. 



ICHTHYOPHAGOUS CLUB, New York City: 



Collection of mentis of annual dinners of the club. (57.) 



THOMAS A. IRVING, Provincetown, Massachusetts : 



Full-rigged model of three-masted cod-fishing schooner " Lizzie W. 

 Matheson," of Provincetown, Massachusetts. (4.) 



PROF. DAVID S. JORDAN, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana : 



Works on Ichthyology. (60.) 



DANIEL KELLEHER, New Bedford, Massachusetts : 

 An explosive hand-lance for killing whales. (1.) 



GEORGE KNOWLES, Provincetown, Massachusetts : 



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Ear-bone of finback whale. (54.) 

 Banjo made by a negro whaleman. (21.) 



