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ment of a cabinet illustrating paper-making of all coun- 

 tries and ages, to which the Institute solicits contribu- 

 tions. 



Mr. Bolles, when in England, procured a large number 

 of specimens of vegetable fibres, which have been hand- 

 somely mounted, and will be properly arranged for ex- 

 hibition, in the new department of Technology, which has 

 been organized by the Institute, and which cannot foil to 

 prove both interesting and instructive. He also obtained, 

 through the courtesy of M. C. Cooke, Esq., a variety of 

 models in clay, showing the different classes of workmen 

 engaged in the various processes of paper manufacture as 

 practised in India. Specimens of each were shown to 

 the audience. 



Mr. F. W. Putnam called attention to the fiict that 

 very similar materials (the inner bark of trees, leaves of 

 rushes, etc.), described by Mr. Bolles as used by the 

 ancient races of the East for the manufiicture of paper, 

 were also used by the prehistoric races of this country for 

 the purpose of making garments, as proved by the speci- 

 mens which he had exhibited at a former meeting. 



