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lower Orinoco region, being duplicates of a collection made by 
the writer for the Orinoco Mining and Colonization Co. 
Messrs. C. Heidt and Son have supplied 13 samples of coop- 
erage materials manufactured from different varieties of North 
American woods 
rs. Estes & Co. have donated re samples of small 
ae articles, aieiy made from the wood of the white birch. 
The Animal Trap Co., of Abingdon, “a has donated several 
traps, of which American woods form the bases. 
One of the handsomest collections in the Museum is illustra- 
tive of the cork industry, and is furnished by the Armstrong 
Cork Co. It consists of the entire cork jacket from a cork oak, 
together with seventy-three specimens of the bark in different 
stages of manufacture, of the different varieties of corks and 
cork-products, as well as of the bye-products. any of these 
specimens are in reality sets. If the individual articles were con- 
sidered, the collection would number hundreds of specimens. 
Carson. 
A handsome collection of twenty-five charcoals from different 
varieties of wood has been supplied by the Field Columbian 
heat: o Chisago The ae cae te) ue donated a 
pecime present- 
ing the different stages " tee and of the ae and 
finished lamps made from them. 
'APER, 
Twenty-nine specimens of woods used in the manufacture of 
paper-pulp, in different stages of manufacture, of the pulp itself 
the papers made from it, have been donated by the Inter- 
national Paper Co. Similar series, illustrating cotton, linen and 
straw papers, are desired 
FIBErs. 
Our collections in this department are already very extensive. 
The Field Columbian Museum has supplied a series of 114 speci- 
mens of fiber plants, their fibers and stiles made from them. 
A similar large collection has been received from the Phila- 
seums. An important historical mes of fibers has 
delphia 
been Fae by Columbia University. 
H. H. Russy. 
