FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 83 



UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF WAR : 



United States Army Signal Service — Continued. 



Manifold forms and carbon paper. 



1 set of manifold forms 107, filled out. 



1 set of manifold Press Beports, filled out. 



1 set of manifold River Bulletins, filled out. 



VAN ALTENA & SCHELTUS, Milwaukee, Wisconsin : 



Samples of u The connecting sinker or fish-hook holder. (14-16.) 



A contrivance " that can be used for the double purpose of connecting 

 or disconnecting, in a twinkling, the hook, catgut, or snell with 

 the line, and also serving as a sinker at the same time, thereby 

 having the great advantage of avoiding the trouble and annoy- 

 ance of tying and untying the string on and off" the hook, &c." 

 Prices for 1883: No. 1 (smallest size), $3.50 per dozen ; No. 2 (mid- 

 dle size), $4 per dozen; No. 3 (largest size), $4.50 per dozen. 



PROF. A. E. VERRILL, Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut: 



Publications upon marine invertebrates and deep-sea research. (60.) 



ADOLFH VOSS, Gloucester, Massachusetts: 

 Bait mill. (6.) 

 Boom-crotch supporter. (6.) 



(See Collective exhibit.) 



0. C. VOSS, Gloucester, Massachusetts: 

 Snug-stow anchor. (6.) 



DR. C. A. WHITE, United States Geological Survey, Washington: 



Monograph of the land and fresh-water fossil mollusks of North 

 America, containing essay upon the evolution of fresh- 

 water mollusks and fishes from marine forms. (56.) 



W. A. WILCOX, Secretary Boston Fish Bureau, Boston, Massachusetts: 



Exhibits showing methods of reporting the statistics of the fish 



markets of New England. (60.) 

 Eeports of the Boston Fish Bureau. (60.) 



These reports are issued daily (during the busy fishing season several 

 times a day) ; also, weekly, monthly, and annually. They contain 

 receipts of all fish arriving in Boston, both foreign, domestic, and 

 from fishing vessels. Receipts of fish at all the leading out-posts 

 are daily reported ; movements of the fish and fishing fleets, from 

 day to day ; success and prospects of the catch ; market quotations 

 of sales are daily reported by telegraph from all important locali- 

 ties, with reports from agents and correspondents at all leading 

 ports in the United States and British Provinces of all matters of 

 interest in connection with the fishing industry ; also, weekly 

 statistics and comparisons of receipts, catch, prices, &c, with 

 former years. — TV. A. Wilcox. 



WILCOX, CRITTENDEN & CO., Middletown, Connecticut: 



Boat and vessel fittings, old and new styles, in great variety. (6.) 



