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14 INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. two and a half feet long and twenty-five inches square. From the Philippine Islands was a very large, varied, and especially interesting series of collections, accompanied with a Catalogue Memoir of a Collection of Forestral Productions exhibited by the General Inspection of Forests of the Philippine Islands. The collection was under the super vision of Dr. Sebastian Vidal, the official Forestral Engineer of the islands. The numbers as catalogued extended to over eight hundred, in addition to which there were various articles not enumerated, the catalogue having been printed at Manila and objects added after it was prepared. The collection of woods was the most complete ever made in the Islands, species new even to science being discovered in its collection. There were, according to the catalogue, 1st, two hun dred and eighty-one species of woods with list of names and uses; 2d, a collection of woods for fuel, thirty-seven numbers; 3d, charcoals and ashes, twenty numbers; 4th, barks of fifty-nine species, with names and uses, as for tanning, dyeing, cordage, etc.; 5th, resins, gums, and oils, thirty-five catalogue numbers; 6th, fruits and seeds, seventy-five numbers; 7th, specimens of field- and forest-products; 8th, models of vessels and ships, with the woods of which they were made; 9th, mis cellaneous forest-products, among which were a plank of tove (Ptero- carpus) seven and one-fourth feet wide, a rattan one hundred and fifty and one-half meters (four hundred and ninety-three and one-half feet) long, a cable of black-palm fibre (Caryote urens) still sound after an immersion of one hundred and twenty years in sea-water, etc. VENEZUELA. From Venezuela there were a collection of one hundred species of useful woods with their names, the specimens small, however; various forest-vines; a collection of barks, fibres, gums, resins, dye-woods, and medicinal plants; also, miscellaneous forest-products, such as the milk of caoutchouc, the milk of the cow-tree, various seeds, etc. GENERAL SUMMARY. Space forbids a review in detail of each class of objects that com posed the collections enumerated, or anything more than a general glance at a few of them. A detailed review of the various tanning materials (other than chemical extracts) would be interesting. Each country exhibited its own kinds,—oak-barks and sumac-Ieaves from Europe and the United States, and willow from several European countries, while from others were many species practically unknown among us in the United States. From Brazil, besides barks and - Ja*ssr*rAs—ZML-i... w"-