The commercial products of the sea, or, Marine contributions to food, industry, and art / by P.L. Simmonds.

  • Peter Simmonds
Date:
[1883]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The commercial products of the sea, or, Marine contributions to food, industry, and art / by P.L. Simmonds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    R. Rau-cau, 325 ]iay skin, 262 Razor clam, 146 Reef or fine toilet sponge, 175 Ribbon isinglass, 251 River pearls, 428 Rouen oil, 154 Roumanian amber, 477 Round clam, 146 Russian isinglass, 241 S. .Saddle Rock oyster, 142 Salmon, aggregate value of British and Irish fisheries, 74 as food, 6 in British Columbia, 76 statistics of London sales, 74 Salmon fishery, 73 in New Brunswick, 75 in Norway, 75 Salt in Australia, 348 in Austria, 344 in California, 344 in Cochin China, 347 in India, 346 in Portugal, 34S in the United States, 344 manufacture in France, 339 Sandre oil, 215 Sankka or shell bracelet, 291 Sardine fishery of France, 17, 77 oil, 217 Sardines, American, 81 used as manure in Japan, 81 Sawfish, oil from, 216 Scabeccio, definition of, 87 Scales of fish, uses of, 258 Scallop shells, uses of, 298 Scotch pearls, 429 Seal fishery, 199 oil, 200 Seal skins, 202 exported from Nonvay, 21 value of the imports, 21 Sea-urchins, I2i Seaweed and its uses, 311 collection of, in France, 317 in Japan, 317 Seaweed for manure, 314 as food, 321 Seer-fish, 130 Seine nets, 62 Sephen skin, 262 Sepia, 303 Shad fishery in North America, 60 Shagreen, 263 Shank or chank shell, 289 Shark skin, 261 Shark fins, 235, 237 fishery, 226 Sharks, varieties of, 226 Sheep-wool sponge, 176 Shell bangles or &aceleLs, 2S8 cameos, 274 fish-hooks, 297 sand, 285 Shells as currency, 278, 281 calcined, 270 composition of, 268 domestic uses of, 297 sales of, in London, 271 useful applications of, 270 value of British imports, 287 Shrimp fisheiy, English, 102 Shrimps, dried, trade in, 104 Silicious sponges, 194 Singapore, imports of fish, 15 Slips, a name for soles, 129 Snoods, definition of, 27 Soles, 129 South Sea pearl shells, 377 Spent fish, definition of, 47 Spei-maceti or head matter, 205 Sponge, chemical analysis of, 178 descriptions of, 155 fishery of Tunis, 190 for stuffing beds, 178 value of imports, 21 Sponge fisheries, American, 170 of the Bahamas, 174 Sponges, commercial grades of, 159 cultivation of, 182 French classification of, 193 imports of, from the Mediter- ranean, 192 scientific divisions of, 156 of the Mediterranean, 183 Soft clam, 146 Spring herrings, 52 Squids for fish bait, 120 Stock-fish or round-fish, 32