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42 REPORTS ON AWARDS. 177. Jas. M. Thorburn & Co., New York, N. Y., U. S. GARDEN SEEDS AND TREE SEEDS. Report.—Commended for the size and interest of the exhibit, containing, besides garden and nursery seeds, a very large collection of the seeds of American forest trees and shrubs. 178. Peter Henderson & Co., New York, N. Y., U. S. FIELD AND GARDEN SEEDS. Report.—Commended for size, variety, and excellence of the exhibit. 179. Robert Buist, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., U. S GARDEN SEEDS. Report.—Commended for the variety and purity of the exhibit (about two hundred and fifty samples). 180. Miller, Sievers, & Co., San Francisco, Cal., U. S. CONES OF CALIFORNIA CONIFERS. Report.—A large collection, and very nearly complete, of the cones of Californian cone- bearing trees; a fine collection, and one peculiarly difficult to make. 181. Austin G. Day, Seymour, Conn., U. S. RUBBER-PRODUCING PLANTS. Report.—A collection or fifty plants, more than twenty different species, of rubber-pro ducing plants, from various portions of the world, as well as those grown by the exhibitor. 182. Smythe, Earle, & Co., New York, N. Y., U. S. CRUDE INDIA-RUBBER, NATIVE TREES, AND IMPLEMENTS. Report.—A very complete collection of raw rubber from many countries, together with the sap and the apparatus used in collecting it from the trees. 183. Thomas Meehan, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa., U. S. SEEDS OF AMERICAN TREES AND SHRUBS. Report.—Commended for the completeness of the exhibit. It is certainly the largest in this Exhibition. 184. M. Thams & Co., Orkedal, Norway. TIMBER AND WORKED LUMBER. Report.—A fine commercial exhibit of planks, deals, mouldings, and staves, together with cases.for fish and sections of trees. Shows good material and excellent workmanship. 185. J. C. Arthur, Charles City, Iowa, U. S HERBARIUM OF PLANTS OF IOWA. Report.—The herbarium contains species neatly mounted and labeled, and the most are in duplicate; the duplicate collection ingeniously arranged for exhibition on large sliding frames within a glass case; the whole accompanied by a printed catalogue.