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ally devoted to institutions of this character. Plans of bridges, buildings, and 

 machines, and constructions of various kinds will form a part of the display of 

 the schools of technology. The schools for the education of the deaf mutes and 

 the blind and reform schools are to be especially represented by their products, 

 coming not only from their school-room, but also from the shops which are fre- 

 quently a part of these schools. A library room has been planned in which there 

 will be found current numbers of the educational periodicals of the country; the 

 most useful books for teachers; the various city. State, and national reports on 

 education; specimens of foreign reports and periodicals, and other material of a 

 similar nature. 



The representation of statistics by charts will be largely shown in this room ; 

 the statistics of illiteracy will be presented by colored maps, showing the localities 

 in which education has been most neglected. Physical and chemical laboratories 

 have been planned by professors of these subjects, and will be so arranged as not 

 only to display the apparatus illustrating the different departments cf these sci- 

 ences, but to show visitors some of the more common and useful experiments 

 which are performed before classes in physics and chemistry. The manual train- 

 ing schools which have sprung up in the country since the centennial will be 

 represented by the tools and machines which are used in these schools, and it is 

 believed that under the management of a skillful superintendent the actual oper- 

 ation of these schools in teaching carpentering, forging, machine work, and the 

 like, will be handsomely displayed. The schools of art of the country will be 

 represented by their product, which will form a most interesting part of this dis- 

 play. It is believed that this bureau will make a most interesting and instructive 

 exhibit to all who feel an interest in a more advanced stage of education. 



The Census Office will illustrate by a series of illuminated charts and dia- 

 grams, together with some geometrical figures, the present stature of this coun- 

 try, and its growth by decades, as far as may be possible, in population, agricul- 

 ture, manufactures, mining, forestry, fisheries, and other material interests. The 

 present standing of the United States, as compared with foreign countries, will 

 be indicated by a combination of figures and illustrations showing our relative 

 population, industrial employments, and value of products, acreage and agricul- 

 iural products, wealth, taxation, and indebtedness, with interesting comparative 

 data relating to the defective and dependent classes of the people to their social 

 progress, occupations, etc. 



The Geological Survey comprises also the bureau of ethnology. During the 

 last five years this bureau has made large collections of the products of aborigi- 

 nal art, both ancient and modern, such as textile fabrics, pottery, implements of 

 war and of the chase, with other curious objects, many of which were used in 

 their periodical ceremonies and dances ; these latter will be arranged by Mr. 

 Frank Gushing, who is familiar with the mystic rites of these people, and will 

 make an interesting exhibit. Gol. James Stevenson has been in the far west 

 during the past two or three months collecting important additions to these ex- 



