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sale price of the article and an exact clescrijotion of the object, the length, 

 breadth, and height given in meters.* • 



Articles must be forwarded witliout cost to the committee, so as to be 

 placed in the exposition from the 1st to the 15th of June. Exhibitors 

 will be allowed by the committee to set their machinery in motion at 

 their own expense. A moderate rent will be charged for the space occu- 

 pied. 



The committee will take care of articles without guarantee against 

 damage or loss, but will insure articles against fire. 



The Exposition will be opened to the public on the 27th of June, and 

 continue open daily until the 14th of August. On the day after the 

 close of the Exposition exhibitors will remove articles not sold, and 

 such as are not so removed before the 1st of September will be stored 

 at the expense of the exhibitor. Articles not claimed by the 10th of 

 of September will be sold at auction, and the i)roceeds be devoted to 

 the support of the jjoor of the city. 



All sales must be made by the committee, and for cash. By authority 

 of the King, the committee propose to organize a lottery for the sale of 

 articles bought at the exposition, twenty-five thousand lots at one florin 

 each. 



Honorary diplomas will be given to a limited number of exhibitors 

 designated by the jury. 



Detailed particulars may be obtained by addressing the secretary, J. 

 I^agel jr., Arnheim ; or A. Mazel, minister of the !Netherlands, Wash- 

 ington, B.C. 



CATTLE PLAGUE IN EUEOPE. 



The intelligence received from eastern Europe relative to the extent 

 and progress of the cattle plague is far from being reassuring. It was 

 hoped that all danger had passed with reference to an extension of the 

 malady from the western and southwestern parts of Poland into Prus- 

 sian Silesia, but recent information shows that the Prussian govern- 

 ment has found it necessary to extend its precautiouarj^ measures in that 

 direction, and to have the frontier guarded by troops from Neuberun, in 

 Silesia, to Weischinic, in the department of Posen. Not only is Prussia 

 threatened by an invasion of the disease in her southeastern provinces, 

 but also in her northeastern, as the i)lague has extended in Russia as 

 far northward as Knoviio. To meet this new source of danger the gov- 

 ernment has dispatched troops to guard the frontier from Tilsitt to Pill- 

 kallen, in East Prussia. Poland is suffering to a great extent from this 

 visitation of the plague, as is likewise Galdicia, Transylvania, and Buck- 

 oweria. 



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SCIENTIFIC NOTES UPON NATUEAL HISTOEY. 



The following items are from scientific sources in recent foreign pu"b- 

 lications : 



Dredging the Atlantic. — In August, 1869, some very curious facts 

 were communicated to the British association, respecting the bed of the 

 Atlantic, by Professor Thomson. He started on an expedition from 

 Belfast for the purpose of determining, if possible, the great questions of 



* Meter, 39 inches. 



