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A. Relation of forestry to other industries and conditions of life in 

 general. 



' B. Description of the objects upon which forestry is to be applied 

 and of the raw material. 



C. Methods of utilization and application. 



J). Methods of production and management. 



E. Bibliography and miscellaneous. 



Section A would serve, so to speak, as an introduction to the subject 

 of forestry. Under it would be classified such exhibits as represent the 

 importance of forests to the industrial and cultural life of the nation, 

 their influence upon soil, water, and climatic conditions, and their eth- 

 ical value, forest conditions of tbis and other countries, statistics of 

 supply and demand. The value of the application of forestry upon the 

 natural forest areas, the history of the development of the art in other 

 nations and our own, methods of education, may be exhibited in statis- 

 tical tables, charts, maps, etc. 



Section B would represent not only the nature of the material of 

 which our forests are composed, describing the forest trees by botan- 

 ical specimens, wood-sections, and illustrations (forest-botany), and 

 more especially the economically valuable timbers by slabs and other- 

 wise, but also by maps, charts, and illustrations, the distribution, loca- 

 tion, and condition of forest-areas and the distribution of species (for- 

 est geography). Photomicrographs and veneer sections will show the 

 structure of the various woods; peculiarities of growth and character- 

 istics of the living tree will be made clear by suitable specimens. 



The aim in this section will have to be not to expand too much in the 

 direction of general botany, but to keep in view that forestry deals with 

 vegetable products for a special purpose mainly, and this purpose must 

 guide in the selection and limitation of the exhibit. 



The timbers of foreign countries may also be exhibited as far as their 

 knowledge is of interest, as bearing upon the forestal development of 

 our country, or as aiding to make us appreciate our own forest wealth. 



Section C admits of the greatest expansion, and the limitations 

 above mentioned will have to be specially kept in view in selecting the 

 material for exhibit. Besides the raw material in shape for manufact- 

 ure and partly manufactured, there may be exhibited such complete 

 manufactures as show the adaptability of certain woods to special uses. 



Here will also be exhibited the tools and machinery (in models, etc.) 

 of the lumberman and the wood-worker, as far as they belong to the 

 history of harvesting the crop and shaping it for the market. 



The methods of obtaining the so-called by-products of the forest, 

 such as tan bark, turpentine, charcoal, and the various products of dis- 

 tillation, also cellulose and wood-pulp manufacture; processes for sea- 

 soning and preserving timber, etc., must be represented in this section. 



The exhibits for Section I) represent forestry proper, and, since for- 

 estry is hardly yet practiced in this country, will at first have to be 



