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wind. There has thus now been opened to us a new path 
in the science of aérostation, and it is difficult to limit the 
imagination to those new wonders we may expect within 
even a few more years. 
VI. PAPER AT THE INTERNATIONAL 
EXHIBITION. 
By F. C. Danvers, Assoc. Inst. C.E. 
io International Exhibition of 1872 is the second of 
aay the series of annual International Exhibitions held at 
: South Kensington. These Exhibitions, which will 
henceforth take the place of their larger prototypes, so far 
at least as this country is concerned, shall, it is intended, 
be opened each year for the exhibition of special industries, 
each in their turn. Last year, the classes to which the 
Exhibition was confined were mainly three—the fine arts, 
pottery, and woollen and worsted fabrics. This year, again, 
it also consists of three main divisions—fine arts, manufac- 
tures of cotton and cotton fabrics, articles of jewellery worn 
as personal ornaments, paper and stationery. Printing also 
occupies a prominent position, whilst musical instruments 
of all kinds and acoustic apparatus are also represented. 
The third division consists of scientific inventions and new 
discoveries. 
A notice of the principal exhibits classed under the third 
division appeared in the last number of the ‘‘ Quarterly 
Journal of Science,” and we shall not, therefore, refer 
further to them now. ‘The fine arts division we shall also 
upon the present occasion leave unnoticed; and as within 
the limits of a single article it would be impossible to do 
justice to all the manufactures classified, we purpose to 
confine ourselves to those which occupy the most prominent 
part of the Exhibition, namely, cotton and cotton fabrics 
(so far as they may be said to be connected with paper 
manufacture), paper, and stationery. 
In respect of the exhibits which form the subject of our 
present article, it cannot be said that there is a very satisfac- 
tory show, foreign countries especially being hardly, ifat all, re- 
presented by specimensof paper manufacture. Thissubjecthas 
been very much neglected on former occasions, there having 
been only eleven exhibitors from Great Britain in both the 
Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862. Nevertheless, it cannot be 
