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A collection o£ 70 specimens o£ Colonial woods 

 were exhibited by the Woods and Forests Department ; 

 the specimens were cut in cross and longitudinal sec. 

 tions and touched up and polished on one side to show 

 the grain and veins of each sample. At the close of the 

 Exhibition^ the collection was placed at the disposal of 

 the director of the Botanical Gardens at Kew. 



M. Ch. Dupuy of Seychelles^ likewise sent a very 

 nicely prepared collection of Seychelles woodsand. M. 

 H. W, Shand Harvey of Henrietta Estate^ contributed 

 two beautiful logs of wood ; one of Ebony wood {Dios- 

 ^yros ehenmn) and the other of Iron wood (Stadtmania 

 Sideroxylon) . They are both very valuable and extremely 

 heavy; and also very hard and take a beautiful polish. 



At the request of M. G. Hooper, the President of 

 the Institute of British carriage Manufacturer, I have 

 supplied him with a detailed report on the timbers used 

 by carriage builders and wheelwrights in the colony. 

 On the invitation of Messrs Ramsome & Co. a number 

 of gentlemen witnessed at their Works at Chelsea, 

 experiments to test some of the colonial timbers, which, 

 from want of knowledge as to their qualities, have been 

 hitherto unknown in the European markets. We bad 

 unfortunately too small pieces of wood to be experiment- 

 ed upon, though good many of our specimens might 

 compete to advantage with foreign woods for joinery 

 and other similar works. 



