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or Himalayan wood axe, and a kookei'ee, or knife used by the 

 Ghoorkas, and Arab slippers. Photographs of the natives of 

 Steamer Point, Aden, and of the Point itself, calabash covers from 

 Central Africa, flint implements from Cissbaiy, &c. 



Spectroscopes, &c., were exhibited by Messrs. T. Rowley and 

 Son, as well as a photovama and euminoscope. Telegraphic 

 and other appai-atus were shown by Mr. Yolk. Tree felling 

 instruments in green stone, used by the natives of New Guinea, 

 were exhibited by Mr H. Willett. The most interesting table 

 in the room was that of Mr C. F. Dennet, who has devoted 

 himself, and with the most encouraging and gratifying results, to 

 the discovery of substitutes for cotton, silk, &c., and materials for 

 the manufactui'e of rope, paper, and other things. He was led to 

 this by the cotton famine in the last decade and by the rewai-d 

 offered by the Govei-nment ; the result being that several growths 

 which have, up to the present time, been regarded as all but useless 

 have been utilized and have been found to yield well. Specimens 

 of China grass, New Zealand flax, and other plants, in various 

 stages of preparation were shown, and the fact that they are now 

 finding a ready sale in the market is a satisfactoiy proof of the 

 success of the experiment. Hitherto the chief difficulty in dealing 

 with these pi'oducts has been the want of a machine which should 

 propei'ly separate the fibre, and such a machine Mr Dennet has just 

 managed to secure. 



Microscopes, spectroscopes, galvanic batteries, meteorological 

 and other scientific instruments, were scattered throughout the 

 rooms. 



Amongst those who presided over microscopes were Dr. Corfe, 

 Dr. TuthiU Massy, Dr. HaUifax, Mr. Haselwood, Mr. W. H. Smith, 

 Mr. Savage, Mr. Puttick, Mr. Wonfor, Mr. Ryall (Eastbourne), Mr. 

 Wonfor, jun., Mr. J. Ridge, jun., Mr. G. D. Sawyer, Mr. C. 

 Hamilton, Mr. T. Glaisyer, Mr Gwatkin, Mr. H. Saunders, jun., Mr. 

 Lawlcr, Rev. W. J. Payne, Mr. B. Lomax, Mr. Mills, Mr. H. Lee 

 (Croydon), Mr. F. E. Sawyer, Mr. Moginie, Quekett, and Mr. T. 

 Curties (Royal Microscopical Society) ; the latter gentleman, — an 

 honorary member, — in addition to supplying a large collection of 

 tropical microscopical insects, also providing some two hundred 

 mounted objects for the use of members. The special object shown 



