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that can be sent to them by the professors of tlie science and art 

 of forestry throughout the globe. 



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 At home, we trust that our foresters will do credit to themselves 

 by each and all contributing something of interest, however small, to 

 the general display. There are numerous ways and means for every one 

 wlio desires to contribute to do so. It may be in the form of some natural 

 or manufactured product, useful design, rustic-work, improved tool or 

 implement, artistic designs and drawings from nature, plans of estates, 

 forests, buildings, bridges, timber slides, river warping, &c., and in a 

 host of other ways which the ready invention of intelligent men will 

 soon find out. AVe are confident that our foresters are well able to 

 hold their own in all these matters, and we look forward to seeing 

 them make one of the most useful and interesting displays in the 

 whole Exhibition. 



To the owners of forests and woodlands the subject is undoubtedl}'- of 

 the highest importance. Of this they appear to be fully aware, judging 

 the large number of them who have already given their patronage and 

 ready help to the undertaking. It is therefore hardly necessary for 

 us to fear that they are likely to overlook sending such contribu- 

 tions as their estates and woods produce to the Exhibition, or to 

 neglect to send their foresters to see the display and to reap the full 

 advantages which such an Exhibition is so well calculated to afford 

 to everv observant and intelligent man. 



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From all we have heard, the Dominion of Canada, India, and our 

 various Colonies, are determined to be well represented at the 

 Exhibition, and are all busy preparing extensive and valuable 

 collections of their forest products and other objects of a useful and 

 interesting nature connected with forestry in the various dependencies 

 of the British Crown. The United States of America, with their vast 

 forest resources, are making especial efforts to produce a display equal 

 to the great importance of the subject ; and, with their wonderful 

 ingenuity and their determination to overcome all obstacles, we may 

 safely anticipate that they will succeed in what they have undertakeii. 



The States of the Old World, too, do not mean to be out of the 

 race if they can help it, as most of them have indicated a ready 

 willingness to take part in the International display. Even from the 

 ancient kingdom of Persia, and the countries which owned the sway 

 of Greece and liome in the early ages, various rich and interesting 

 collections are to be forthcoming ; and of course the modern empires 



