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present occasion, together with the names of the exhibitors ; 

 but have not felt themselves authorized to make any critical 

 observations. 



A sufficient justification of this course will, we think, be 

 found in the fact, that the committee was, in some degree, 

 informally organized, and that their duties were understood to 

 be merely supervisory ; and as there were no premiums to 

 bestow, they would avoid even the semblance of invidious 

 comparisons. 



The committee, for the purpose of systematizing their 

 account of the exhibition, have adopted the following arrange- 

 ment. 



Of the Gallinaceous family, the display was very extensive ; 

 the different specimens of which may be comprised under the 

 following heads : 



1 . The Large Asiatic, or Great Malay tribe ; of which sev- 

 eral varieties were offered, under the name of Chinese, Cochin 

 China, Red Shanghae, White Shanghae, Sucks County, Jersey 

 Slues, and Java ; the exhibitors of which were J. Giles, Provi- 

 dence, R. I. ; J. W. French, East Randolph ; David Blanch- 

 ard, East Randolph ; Geo. P. Burnham, Roxbury ; Francis 

 Alden, Dedham ; B. Lancaster, Jamaica Plain ; Asa Tribou, 

 North Bridgewater ; G. W. Hears, Boston ; E. B. Little, 

 Haverhill ; G. W. George, Haverhill ; Sidney Packard, East 

 Bridgewater ; S. H. Peck, Lynn ; A. White, East Randolph ; 

 E. Jackson, East Bridgewater ; S. & G. Hyde, Newton ; 

 Linus Manley, Easton ; C. J. Floyd, Dorchester ; T. Tyrrel, 

 Easton ; M. H. Tyrrel, Easton ; B. W. Balch, Dedham ; A. 

 W. Merrill, Brookline ; Theodore Drew, Plymouth ; John 

 Chamberlin, Jr., Danvers ; C. M. Gillett, Kingston; John 

 W. Hunt, North Bridgewater; S. L. Read, Watertown ; A. 

 A. Andrews, Roxbury ; W. W. Hague, Jamaica Plain ; J. 

 H. Noble, Somerville ; Thos. Thorpe, West Cambridge ; T. 

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