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The Managers take this opportunity to express their thanks to tlie 

 judges who officiated in the seven departments of the regular exhibi- 

 tion. Their duties were arduous, but they were performed with 

 commendable zeal and impartiality, and the results of their labors will 

 be seen in the following enumeration of awards which have been 

 made in accordance with their decisions. 



l8t 2(1 3d 



Medal. Medal. Medal. 



I. Department of Fine Arts and education 26 19 4 



II. Department of the Dwelling 31 53 61 



III. Department of Dress and Handicraft 29 35 8 



lY. Department of Chemistry and Mineralogy ... 24 22 11 



Y. Department of Engines and Machinery 76 92 47 



YI. Department of Intercommunication 19 35 52 



YII. Department of Agriculture and Horticulture. 27 24 5 



Total of each medal 232 280 188 



Total of all medals 700 



The number awarded at exhibition of 1867 was 522 



Excess in 1869 178 



In addition to these, the Board has awarded, for the first time in the 

 history of the Institute, the large medal of honor, authorized by arti- 

 cle ten, section thirteen, of the bj-laws, for Ly all's positive motion 

 power loom, which obviates the throwing of the shuttle, a plan used 

 in the art of weaving for more than four thousand years, and which 

 until lately was supposed to be indispensable. 



One of the striking features of this exhibition was the series of 

 addresses delivered by gentlemen widely known for the interest they 

 have taken in the progress of the industrial arts. The first was made 

 at the opening by the President of the Institute, who appropriately 

 welcomed both exhibitors and visitors. The second was by the Hon. 

 S. S. Fisher, of Washington, Commissioner of Patents, who gave an 

 able review of the triumphs of American inventions and the promi- 

 nent part which the American Institute had taken in fostering that 

 creative genius which aims to produce the useful rather than the 

 beautiful, and which has given us labor-saving machines and all those 

 improvements that tend to alleviate the material condition of man. 

 The third was by Dr. George B. Loring, of Salem, Mass., who advo- 

 cated in eloquent terms the agricultural interests of the country. 

 The fourth was by Mh Erastus Bigelow, the well known inventor 



