336 Annual International Exhibitions. (July, 
We refrain from entering into any further details on this 
subject on the present occasion, but having thrown out the 
idea in a somewhat vague way, perhaps, we proceed now to 
review, as briefly as possible, what have been the results of 
the past four Annual Exhibitions, including, of course, the 
current one which has not yet closed its doors upon the un- 
appreciating public. 
The Exhibition of 1871 was confined mainly to three 
classes, viz., fine arts, pottery, and woollen and worsted 
fabrics, together with machinery employed in the manufac- 
ture of the two latter classes. Besides these, however, 
there were also exhibited educational appliances and instru- 
ments, scientific inventions and new discoveries, and ° 
horticulture. Amongst the machinery employed in the 
manufacture of pottery there were brick- and tile-making 
machines, clay-crushers, pug-mills, pottery wheels, pipe- 
making machines, stone-breaking machines, whilst in 
another part of the building was exhibited every conceivable 
variety of finished products of the potter’s art, from the 
exquisitely finished designs of Wedgwood, Minton, and 
Daniell, to a ginger-beer bottle and tobacco-pipe. Amongst 
the machinery for woollen and worsted manufacture were 
exhibited various power looms, combing machines, balling 
machines, carpet-weaving machines, &c., &c., whilst the 
manufactured articles were also exhibited in endless variety. 
It would be out of place, upon the present occasion, to enter 
into detail regarding what was exhibited so far back as 1871, 
but it may be generally remarked that, whilst some of the 
exhibits were decidedly novel, many were of an uncertain 
age, and the Exhibition generally could not be looked upon 
as in any way representing the fullest advancement that had 
been developed in the special classes exhibited. Scientific 
inventions represented upon that occasion formed the sub- 
je@t of an article in the “‘ Quarterly Journal of Science” in 
the same year. 
The second of the series of annual International Exhibi- 
tions was opened on the 1st of May, 1872. As in the former 
year, this Exhibition consisted of three main divisions, viz., 
fine arts, manufactures, and recent scientific inventions and 
new discoveries. The leading manufactures represented on 
this occasion were cotton, cotton fabrics, jewellery, paper, 
stationery, and printing, whilst musical instruments of all 
kinds, and acoustic apparatus, were also represented. 
Paper formed the principal topic of exhibition, and it was 
dealt with at some length, at the time, in a special separate 
article. Notwithstanding the great importance of the 
