Excerpt from The Commercial Products of the Sea: Or, Marine Contributions to Food, Industry, and Art Having published a series of papers in the Art Journal, under the title of "Marine Contributions to Art," and some other articles on various products obtained from the Sea in my serial publications, The Technologist and The Journal of Applied Sciettce, it occurred to me that they might be conveniently collected into a volume, which would form a companion to books I had previously published on "The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom," and on "Animal Products: their Preparation and Uses." Hence the appearance of the present work, which, I believe, will supply a want, by furnishing accurate details respecting articles and products of considerable importance in a commercial point of view. Although some works have been published from time to time on special fisheries, none have treated the subject as a whole, or gone over the field of research in a systematic manner, so as to show the importance of the Commercial Products of the Sea to various countries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.