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GENERAL REPORT OF THE JUDGES OF GROUP VI. g forests of the globe, so that a small collection might be very full and represent great economic interests, while a vastly more striking one might but meagerly represent the actual forest resources of its locality. The nineteen colonies or possessions may, for our uses, be thrown into seven geographical groups, viz.: a. British North America. b. The Atlantic Islands and Guiana. c. Africa. d. Indian Ocean. e. Asia. f. Australia and Tasmania. g. New Zealand. a. Canada had the largest, most varied, and most attractive collec tion of timber and lumber in the Exhibition. The contributions of many private exhibitors were mostly arranged in a great collective exhibit, which contained nearly every form of lumber coming to market,—rough, hewn, sawn, split, and shaved,—some of the pieces of great size. The staple lumbers, especially white-pine, were notice able for their excellence. From the forests of British Columbia came two pieces, shown with the Canadian collection, a cross-section and a plank, each more than eight feet in diameter, and both apparently of the Douglas spruce. From New Brunswick came private exhibits of lumber, and an official description of the useful trees and shrubs of the province. b. From British Guiana were only fibres, but the Atlantic islands, the Bermudas, Bahamas, Jamaica, and Trinidad, had each collections of woods, some of them necessarily containing few species, but those of value. From Jamaica was a fine collection by Mr. Robert Thompson, superintendent of the Botanic Gardens at Kingston, beautifully shown, containing, besides species of less interest, several valuable tropical commercial woods (mahogany, lignum-vitae, etc.), dye-woods, barks for textiles and tanning, gums, wax, etc., accompanied by a printed catalogue and labels, with common and botanic names and explanatory notes. Two collections from Trinidad were especially noticeable. One by Mr. H. Prestoe, Government botanist, of sixty indigenous woods, with printed catalogue with English and botanic names, notes of size of trees, specific gravity of the woods, with barks, fibres, etc.; the other by Mr. S. Devenish, Surveyor-General, of the indigenous