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portion of the concrete and reflective constituents of science must be presented 

 to the mind. — Fortnightly Index. 



THE NATIONAL EXHIBIT AT THE NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION. 



In addition to the grant of $1,000,000 made by Congress as a loan to further 

 the project of a World's Fair, and Cotton Centennial in New Orleans, an appro- 

 priation of $300,000 was made to enable the various departments of the national 

 Government that are depositories of the nation's historic and industrial annals to 

 make a fitting display. The most imposing and valuable exhibits will be made 

 by the various bureaus comprised in the interior department, represented by 

 Hon. Benjamin Butterworth, commissioner of patents. The manner with which 

 the preparation and arrangement of the vast exhibits of the various bureaus have 

 progressed insures a display that will appropriately and fully place the industrial 

 life and immense mineral wealth of the country before the world. 



The bureaus under the department of the interior which will contribute to 

 the exhibit opened on December 16, 1884, are the Patent Office, General Land 

 Office, Bureau of Education, Census Office, United Sttates Geological Survey 

 (which includes the Bureau of Ethnology), and the Office of the Commissioner of 

 Railroads. These exhibits will be ready for shipment to New Orleans in a few 

 days. They will illustrate in a comprehensive manner all the important indus- 

 tries and interests in the United States. 



The Bureau of Education will present in school architecture, models and 

 drawings of schoolhouse structures, from the most primitive times up to the most 

 improved building of the present day. Photographs and photo-lithographs will 

 supplement the models and form a considerable part of the exhibit. The fixtures 

 of the school-room, such as are used for heating, ventilation, and the modifica- 

 tion of heat and light will be presented. The kindergarten will be shown with 

 all the material which is used in that kind of a school, and a considerable amount 

 of children's work. It is intended that this section shall be under the immediate 

 supervision of an experienced teacher of kindergarten, and that much pains will 

 be taken, not only with the kindergarten itself, but with the material for the in- 

 struction of young children. 



Primary, grammar, and high school rooms will be fitted up with desks, ap- 

 paratus, charts, maps, specimens of scholars' work, text-books, and any other 

 material that may fairly represent the appliances found in our best schools. The 

 college rooms will be similarly fitted up, and will be made to display, so far as 

 possible, the contributions of colleges to the bureau for use in this connection. 



Professional education, especially the teaching of medicine and dentistry, 

 will be amply illustrated by charts, photographs, and plans of medical buildings; 

 by the instruments used in the profession, and in such other ways as the inge- 

 nuity of the medical profession may suggest. The schools of science and tech- 

 nology are expected to contribute largely of their products to the section especi- 



