26 HOW ox MINERALS FOR THE PAEIS EXHIBITION. 



The plan ou which the mineral collections now to be sent, 

 are arranged, is this : — 



1st. There are shewn by different exhibitors, specimens of 



large size, illustrating the nature of economic minerals, 



such as coals, iron ore, manganese ore, paint and cement 



stones, building stones, and marbles. 



2nd. There is exhibited by the Provincial Government, a 



collection of gold specimens. 

 3rd. There is a collection selected from the minerals of the 



late Dr. Webster, and arranged by mj^self. 

 4th. There is a collection arranged by myself, intended to 

 shew generally the nature of the minerals found in Xova 

 Scotia, and, therefore, to contain as far as practicable, an 

 illustration of every class of minerals, and of their most 

 striking varieties met with in the Province. This 

 collection is to return to find a place in the Provincial 

 Museum, for which a room of 70 ft. by 30, is set apart 

 in the Provincial Building now in course of erection. 

 As it has been found necessary to send away some of the 

 larger specimens of minerals, what is shewn at the local 

 exhibition forms but a part of the whole collection. The 

 specimens which have 1jeen forwarded under the head of class 

 40, " Mining aud Metallurgy," are these : — 



COALS. 



1 . A column of coal from Little Glace Bay, C. B., in the name 



of Edwd. P. Archbold, Esq. Dimensions when cnt, 

 9 ft. 6 ins., by 2 ft. 10 ins. 



2. A colinnn of coal from Caledonia Mine, Little Glace Bay, in 



name of Henry Poole, Esq. Dimensions, 8 ft. thickness. 

 o. A column of coal from Gowrie Mines, C. B., in the name of 

 Hon. T. D. Archibald. Dimensions, 5 ft. in thickness. 



4. A column of coal from Cow Bay Mine, C. B., in the name 



of Rol^t. Belloni, P]sq. Dimensions, probably 9 ft. in 

 thickness. 



5. A column of coal from Sydney Mines, Cape Breton, in the 



name of G. M. A,, (R. H. Brown, Agent.) Dimensions, 

 probably 5 ft. thickness. 



