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INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1885. 



IT is iuteuded to hold at the Alexandra Palace next year an 

 Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures, Scientific, Agricultural, and 

 Industrial Products. A special feature will be " The World's 

 Forestry Exhibition," under the management of Mr. J. Forsyth 

 Johnson, and iuteuded " to show forth the Productions of the Forests 

 of the World, from the Pine Forests of the Far North to the Palm 

 Fore.sts of the Tropics." The Exhibition of Forestry comprises the 

 following classes : — 



Class I. Practical Forestry. 



Section 1. Imijlements and tools used in forestry ; draining, enclosing, and sur- 

 veying instruments, chains, dendrometers, etc. 



„ 2. Models of foresters' huts, drying sheds, charcoal kilns, timber .slips, 

 sluices, bridges, and weii'S. 



„ 3. Plans of river embankments, rafts, and a])pliances for floating timber. 



„ 4. Machinery or models for transporting timber and tran.splanting trees. 



„ 5. Saw-mills, 'wood-working machinery of every description, and pulping 

 apparatus in motion or otherwise. 



„ G. Fencing materials of all kinds, including gates and stiles. 



Class II. Forest Produce, Raw and Manufactured. 



Collections of timber specimens and ornamental woods : — 



A. Indigenous or naturalized. 



B. Exotic. 

 Wood used for ordnance, as gun-carriages, etc. 

 Wood used for railway purposes, natural or prepared ; carriages, 



improved waggon.s, sleepers, etc. 

 Wood pavements. 



Cooperage ; tubs, baiTels, etc. ; back and vat makers, etc. 

 Wood carving and turnery, with tools used. 

 Basket and wicker work. 

 Fancy woodwork, including veneers, parquetry, bog Oak ai"ticles, 



stained and coloured woods, etc., bent wood, fret-work, cabinet- 



woik. 

 Wood engi'aviug, with samples of wood, wood letters, etc. 

 Bamboos, canes, and reeds, and manufactures therefrom ; clarinettes, 



bassoons, etc. ; chairs, screens, mats, blinds. 

 Farming substances ; barks, exti'acts, etc. 

 Dyeing substances ; woods, roots, flowers, etc. 

 Barks, including cork ; kamptulicon, vii'gin cork, cork cutters. 

 Fibres and fibrous substances, straws, bonnets, etc. ; linen and cotton, 



mats, sails, beehives, brushes, tents, cocoa-nut fibre, hemp, flax, etc. 

 Materials for paper manufacture, and specimens of papers. 

 Gums, resins, and gum elastics ; india-rubber goods, pouches. 

 Wood oils and varnishes, including lac of sorts. 

 Drugs, food, spices. 

 Charcoal for gunpowder, tinder, etc. ; filters, vegetable charcoal 



(medicinal), deodorizers, etc. 

 Peat and its products. 



Cones, seeds, and fruits of trees and shrubs. 

 Wood used for land and water transport ; carriages, carts, baiTows, 



omnibuses, and cabs ; yachts, boats, rafts, models of ships, barges, 



masts, etc. 



