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large pine trunk, containing a turpentine box, and a series of 
twenty specimens of turpentine and resin, illustrative of the trade- 
classification of these products 
The Packer Tar Soap Co. donates five specimens of tar soap 
and the materials from which it was made. 
A full series of resin soaps is very much desired. 
VOLATILE OILS. 
essrs. Fritzsche Bros. & Co., have supplied almost a com- 
eas collection of 150 volatile oils. An attempt has been made 
ure specimens of the substances from which these oils are 
distilled, and Messrs. J. L. Hopkins & Co. have donated ninety 
uch samples. 
Fixep OILs. 
The American Cotton Oil Co. has furnished a handsome series 
of specimens illustrating crude and refined cotton seed oil, cotton 
seeds, the various stages of manufacture and the bye-products. 
Asimilar series has been supplied by the American Linseed 
Co,, illustrative of the linseed oil industry. 
ne of the very instructive exhibits of the Museum is in this 
department, illustrative of the manufacture of soaps and glycerin 
and of the products employed therein, and is donated by Messrs. 
Colgate & Co. 
Poisons, 
Time and opportunity have not as yet been favorable to the 
proper organization of this department, but a large local collec- 
tion of poisonous plants, supplemented by many ee has been 
made and placed in a prominent position in the Mus 
Woops. 
rt most important collection in this department is a series of 
five hundred and nineteen specimens donated by Mr. Morris K 
Jesup, being duplicates from the Jesup collection of North Amer- 
ican forestry at the American Museum of Natural History and 
forming almost a complete representation of North American 
woods 
A large collection of foreign woods has come from the Field 
a asa Mus 
ave a rare s lease of fifty-two specimens from the 
