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Continuins' to the left one comes to the 



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ZOOLOGY COURT, 



containing- tlie following specimens : — 



Native and Tiger Cats. 



llird.s of New Guinea. 



Parrots and Cockatoos. 



Goura Crowned Pigeons. 



Bower Birds. 



Iinpeyan Plieasant, India. 



Sparrow Hawks. 



Lyre Birds. 



Native Companions. 



Birds of New Guinea. 



Victorian Game Birds. 



Emus — Male, female, and small one. 



W'alhiliy, Native Bears, Old JMan Kangaroo, Kangaroo, Snake, Python, Platypi, 



Laughing-jackass. 

 Skin of Tiger shot in India by the Royal Princes, lent by Hon. L. L. Smith. 



Next in order is the 



ECONOMIC BOTANY COURT. 



The Exhibits in this Court exemplify in an infinitesimal degree the enormous resources this 

 Continent possesses in the way of natural botanic products. 



Our timber wealth alone is to ])e calculated by the worth of millions and millions of poxmds, 

 and the visitor can see here exemplified the economic uses to which the most despised of our 

 ordinary trees can be put. The timber which is lieiug ruthlessly destroyed all over this fair land 

 of ours is the result of the natural growth of ages, and it is difficult to say what organic changes 

 may not be wrought in our climatic conditions by this ruthless destruction of nature's sheltering 

 mantle to the earth. 



The Exhibits may be enumerated as below: — 



9 cases, Models of Fruits. 



2 cases, Specimens of Australian Woods. 



9 cases. Economic Pharmaceutical Collection. 



2 cases, Models of Fungi. 



2 cases, articles of every-day use manufactured from Australian Timber. 



Queensland Timber, as applied to building pm'poses. 



440 Specimens of Indian Timber. 



Annotto Dyes. 



Specimens of Tea. 



Long Pepper. 



Beans. 



37 Specimens of South Australian Timber. 



Queensland Timber Trophy. 



2 Photographs, School of Agriculture, New Zealand. 



40 Plates, illustrating diseases of plants. 



Ill Varieties of Ferns (pressed). 



12 Plates of Fungi. 



Block of Gum from grass tree (Xanthorea Australia). 



65 Specimens of Italian Woods. 



