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*^^HE International Forestry Exhibition at Edinburgh promises to 

 -A be even more comprehensive and attractive to the general public 

 ^ than the promoters originally anticipated, or at least led the 

 public to believe. Finding that they have practically an unlimited 

 command of room in the spacious grounds which they have fortunately 

 secured for holding the Exhibition, the Executive Committee have 

 wisely postponed the closing of the entries until the last day of the 

 present month, and we Jiear that they are now prepared to entertain 

 applications for the exhibition of plant and machinery of every 

 description connected with the working of forests, the conversion of 

 timber, and the manufacture and use of wood upon the most extensive 

 scale. Portable railways, timber bridges, engines, trucks, saw-mills, 

 and other machinery and contrivances of every design for the 

 economical transport and conversion of timber, are to be exhibited, 

 with all the latest improvements, by the leading firms ; and as most 

 of these exhibits will be shown in motion they will form a great 

 feature of popular attraction without which the Exhibition would not 

 have been half complete. 



With the extension of the time for the closing of the entries to the 

 31st of this month, many additional exhibitors are certain to take the 

 field, and show to the visitors at the Exhibition the excellence of their 

 manufactures, and the great superiority of the mechanical inventions 

 of the day for the saving of expense and the economising of labour 

 in all the industries in which wood has a part. To the inventors 

 and manufacturers of machinery this will form a valuable opportunity 

 for placing the advantages of their various contrivances and the 



