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and in articles of furniture and interior decoration. The “ Black- 
wood” (Dalbergia latifolia), another valuable tree, had also been 
worked up in the same admirable manner, The “Sissoo” (Dal- 
bergia Sissoo) is a tree little known to outside commerce, but it 
has tough enduring qualities which fit it for Ordnance purposes. 
Gun carriages, with wheels made of ‘“Sissoo,” stood the wear and 
tear of the last Afghanistan campaign, and came back without, it 
is said, a single break-down having been recorded. The Andaman 
and Nicobar Islands were well represented by splendid logs of 
“Padouk” (Pterocarpus indicus), the colour of the timber vary- 
ing in different trees from that of cedar to dark mahogany; and by 
examples of the tree known by the natives as “Poon” (Calophyllum 
tnophyllwm), one slab of which, beautifully polished, surpassed in 
size everything cut in the same manner in the Exhibition. Travan- 
core sent some remarkably fine ebony, and the capabilities of our 
Indian Empire for the production of gums, resins, oils, medicinal 
barks, dye stuffs, and other useful products, were abundantly 
illustrated, and suggested the possibility of further trade in these 
and many other articles with our great Eastern Dependency. To 
the ordinary visitor a very pleasing part of the Indian collection 
was the beautiful display of carved work in ivory and wood, and 
the cases of native curiosities from the Punjab and other districts. 
Japan. 
The most notable, perhaps, of all the contributions from 
beyond the seas, was the extremely interesting, varied, and com- 
plete collection of forestry subjects sent from far-off Japan, 
which filled the whole of the eastern transept of the Exhibi- 
tion. This wonderful Collection of Forest Exhibits excited the 
interest and commanded the admiration of all, and clearly de- 
monstrated what rapid progress the Japanese are making in 
the science and art of forestry. It says much for the enlighten- 
ment and enterprise of the Japanese, that the government of a 
country which twenty years ago was jealously shut against all 
foreign intercourse, should have been one of the largest exhibitors 
in an International Forestry Exhibition held in the capital of 
Scotland. They also recognised their sense of the importance of 
the Exhibition by sending over as Commissioner one of their chief 
forestry officers, M. Tokai, whose methods of arranging and 
