90 ANIMAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



27. OILS AND FATS. 

 a. Mammal oils : 



Bear-oil and bear-fat used as a cosmetic and in the manu- 

 facture of pomatums. 



Dog-oil used in the manufacture of kid-gloves. 



Seal-oil, in its various grades, used for lubricating. 



Sea-elephant oil. 



Sea-lion oil. 



Manatee-oil. 



Dugong-oil. 



Oil and fat from domestic animals, tallow, suet, lard, lard- 

 oil used in lamps, for lubricating, and neats-foot oil used in* 

 dressing leather, also manufactured into various sub- 

 stances, (see D, 30,) and tallow candles and night-lights. 



Oil from body of whales, grampuses, and porpoises used in 

 the arts, for lubricating, painting, &c. 



Black-hsh and porpoise-jaw oil used in lubricating fine ma- 

 chinery, watches, clocks, and guns, with specimens of 

 blubber. 



Grampus-oil used for lubricating fine machinery. 



Sperm-oil used in lamps, for lubricating, as an emollient in med- 

 icine, for lip-salves, and in the manufacture of spermaceti. 



Manufactured glycerines, used as a preservative and anti- 

 septic, as a cosmetic, as an emollient, as a substitute for 

 cod-liver oil, in the manufacture of perfumes and hair- 

 dressings, in photography, in the manufacture of nitro- 

 glycerine, dynamite, dualine, lithofracteur, coloniamitc, 

 and other explosives, soap, &c. 



Manufactured stearines, with candles and other manufactured 

 articles. 



Soaps manufactured from mammal-oil, soda-soaps, (hard, 

 toilet, and resin soaps,) potash-soaps, (washing, shaving, 

 and soft soaps,) diachylon plaster, &c. 



Spermaceti, with specimens of caudles. 



Butter made from milk of cows, goats, and horses. 



Oleomargarines, with specimens of imitation butter. 



Brains of buffalo used in tanning by Indians. 

 h. Bird-oils: 



(Oils of petrels and other sea-birds used by Eskimos and in 

 the Azores for lamp-oil.) 



