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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



tion and witnessing the exti-aordinary 

 magnitude of the undertaking. We are 

 told that the approximate cost is $50,- 

 000,000, the size of the grounds 1,240 

 acres, and the area of the buildings 200 

 acres. It is consequently planned on 

 a scale much surpassing the expositions ' 

 of Philadelphia, Chicago and Paris. 

 The making of expositions is becoming I 



the whole undertaking is an apotheosis 

 of applied science, extending even to the 

 shows along ' The Pike.' Education 

 has been given a central place, both in 

 the position of the building, the first to 

 form part of an exposition, and in the 

 classification of the exhibits. The ex- 

 position and education are also fortu- 

 nate in the fact that the new buildings 



Thomas H. MacBride, Piofessor of Botany, State University ot Iowa, Vice-president for 



Botany. 



a sort of applied science, each showing 

 progress over its predecessors. A large 

 proportion of the chiefs of departments 

 and others in charge of the work at 

 St. Louis have been trained at previous 

 expositions. 



An exposition is both interesting and 

 tiring, whereas a description is likely 

 to be tiring without being interesting. 

 The subjoined plan gives some idea of 

 the arrangement of the buildings, their 

 number and their size. An enumera- 

 tion of the buildings shows clearly that 



of Washington University are on the 

 grounds. We are glad to be able to 

 publish elsewhere in this number a de- 

 scription of the university which is 

 rapidly becoming one of the great uni- 

 versities of the country. The art 

 gallery is also a permanent building, 

 erected with its temporary annexes at 

 the cost of over a million dollars. 



Several of the features of the exposi- 

 tion — such as the exhibit of aerial 

 navigation — for which prizes of the 

 value of $200,000 have been set aside — 



