Animal products : their preparation, commercial uses, and value / by P.L. Simmonds.

  • Simmonds P. L. (Peter Lund), 1814-1897.
Date:
1877
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Animal products : their preparation, commercial uses, and value / by P.L. Simmonds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    xvl IMPORTANCE OF ANIMAL PRODUCTS. gressive detail, the principal Arts and Manufactures arising out of Animal substances which result in such individual benefit, and contribute so greatly to our national wealth and extensive commerce. The objects exhibited are arranged into classes, groups, and sub- divisions, which proceed step by step from the raw material, through the various stages of manufacture, up to the finished product. The Food Products of Animal origin are illustrated in the Food Collection arranged in the opposite gallery. Descriptive general, and special, framed labels are hung about the galleries; every case, article, and particular manufacture is fully described, and cheap catalogues are also on sale, so that the visitor will have little difficulty in gleaning useful information as he proceeds. The extent and importance of the trade in Animal Products generally is probably little understood. It would be indeed diffi- cult to form a precise estimate of its magnitude even as regards the trade, industry, and money value for the United Kingdom alone, but there are some few data from which an approximate account of the raw materials and manufactures derived from the Animal Kingdom may be formed. We have tolerably correct aericultural statistics of our domestic Live Stock, and also oflicial records made annually by the Board of Trade, of the value of the Imports and Exports. If we take, therefore, the data from these for the year 1875 (which, it may be incidentally remarked, was not a very prosperous trade year), we shall arrive at some idea of the enormous figures and the large interests involved. Value of the Imports of Animal origin brought into the United Kingdom in 1875. Live Animals ^8,466,226 Food Products: Bacon and Hams Pork, salted and fresh Beef, salted fresh or preserved . 6,982,470 590,356 357.201 97.136