662 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



of the undertaking the applications for space are both nu- 

 merous and from distant quarters. 



UNITED STATES 



1776. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. 1876. 



TJnitkd States Centennial Commission, 

 904 Walnut Street, PniLADELruiA, , 1S7-. 



M. : For the purpose of facilitating the progress of the necessary 



preparation in connection with the International Exhibition of 1876, your 

 co-operation is requested. Have the kindness to forward a list of such 

 products or manufactures as you desire to have on exhibition at that time, 

 with amount of space required, so for as it is possible to prepare it. This 

 list will not interfere with any future entries that you may desire to add, the 

 object being simply to form some practical idea as to the total amount of 

 space required, and to aid in the prompt production of the catalogue. A 

 form is inclosed which you will please fill up and send, addressed to. 



Yours respectfully, Alfred T. Goshorn, Director-General. 



AMERICAN DEPARTMENT OF THE VIENNA EXPOSITION. 



The American department of the Vienna Exposition was 

 by no means so indifferently represented as has been cur- 

 rently reported though in view of the unfortunate compli- 

 cations which arose about the time of the opening of the 

 display, a somewhat inferior representation of American in- 

 dustries was generally anticipated. 



The department, though in very bad order about the time 

 of the opening of the Exposition, was brought into creditable 

 shape, and was tolerably well filled. 



The space allotted to American exhibitors amounted to 

 some 70,000 square feet, divided as follows : 



In Industry Palace 13,450 square feet. 



" Covered Court 27,000 



" Machinery Hall ;.. 14,550 



" Agricultural Hall 10,000 



*' Additional halls 5,000 



70,000 



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THE BACHE FUND. 



The late distinguished chief of the Coast Survey, by his 

 will, established a fund to be placed in the hands of executors, 

 by whom the income is to be expended, under the direction 

 of a committee of the National Academy of Science, for the 



