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WEST END, WEST COURT. 
WHALING AND ARCTIC RELICS. 
A collection of implements used in whaling; guns, harpoons 
and bomb lances of the various kinds, illustrating the progress of 
the whaling industry. Arctic clothing made for members of the 
Greely Relief Expedition, including reindeer and felt sleeping 
bags, polar bear skins and felt suits and harness used by men 
when drawing sledges, will be found in the two upright cases at 
extreme west end of the West Court. 
LEATHERS. 
In the six large cases at the west end of the West Court will 
be found a valuable collection of tanned and untanned skins and 
leathers, collected by Tiffany & Co., of New York. 
This firm began to make this collection in 1I876 to acquaint 
themselves with the industrial possibilities of using the skins of 
fishes, reptiles, birds and rare mammals. It was the forming of 
this collection that has led to the introduction of the leathers made 
from the frog, alligator, snake and other reptiles. 
ALCOVE 101. 
FISHERIES APPLIANCES. 
On the wall maybe found nets, seines and floats from Norway. 
A primitive anchor from Norway. A seine over one-quarter of a 
mile long, made in Russia; buoys, fish traps, etc., from other 
countries. 
ALCOVE 106. 
AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY. 
The material in this collection was contributed by Mr. Cyrus 
H. McCormick. 
Models illustrating the development of mowing and reaping 
machines. 
Arabian plows. 
Chinese plows, harrows and other agricultural implements. 
Sections of a South American windmill. 
