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below the floor of the building, and I had had carpenters atwork 
securing and blocking the parts of the floor cutthrough. Whenthe — 
logs came to be measured, scarcely one agreed with the list, and the 
floor had in nearly every case to be re-cut. I had to get them cut to 
uniform lengths; and as they had travelled from New Brunswick on the 
open cars, and had been practically covered with snow for more than a 
month, they were sodden, and the sap wood as black as could be. This 
necessitated a considerable amount of planing and adzing—and labour 
of this kind is very dear here, costing as muchas from 43 to 50 cents 
per hour. However, it is all over now; and I have them in place, 
projecting 12 feet above the floor, and well secured by pitch pine blocks. 
All the !arger countries were building elaborate pavilions in the differ- 
ent sections , and as our neighbours in the Agricultural were doing 
this, 1 judged it wiser to place our logs around the borders of our space © 
and thus make a sort of log wall. I have conneéted the tops 
of them by boarding and to this I am hanging the views of 
Guiana. The logs have been touched over with oil and they thus 
show out fairly well. The vat [ have put on the top of four of them 
in a square. The panels are in place, and are arranged on the 
blank wall of the building 8 feet from the ground, where they 
can be seen from good distances away. The colony arms and flags 
are placed abvoe these; and the space below will be utilised for 
photographs and pictures and flat tanned skins of mammals. The 
animals I sent to Boston to be prepared are finished, and they look 
extremely nice and will form a very attractive feature. The second lot 
of things sent have come to hand; but I am afraid there is a good deal 
of breakage as there was in the first lot—judging by the sound inside 
and the appearance of the outside of the boxes sticky with syrup in 
many cases. The views of Guiana from the Museum were awful. 
Nearly every frame was broken, several of the glasses smashed and 
most of the glasses and paintings broken away from the frames. The 
worst of it is that nothing can be sent out of the grounds, so that it is 
awkward repairing many things. I have show-cases already sent in, 
and am just seeing about their being put up and counters, etc., made, 
Few things are yet unpacked owing to the faét that until the big 
timbers were put up, it was hardly possible to do anything else, and 
besides it is not long ago that the roof was repaired so as to be secure, 
Now, however, all being well, things can be hurried on very rapidly, In 
the Agricultural Building we shall have everything in place by May tst; 
