of the Universal Exposition. 1i7 
to say, a well appointed and sufficiently numerous commission 
to witness, examine and report upon the Exposition and the 
groups and classes of objects therein represented; and_ the 
Reports to be printed by the Government for general distri- 
bution. Besides the primary ‘General Survey of the Exposi- 
tion, from the pen of Charles B. Seymour, chairman of the 
Committee, instructed for that purpose by the Department of 
State, and its preface M. Beckwith, U. S. Commissioner 
employed above as an introductory heading to these remarks. 
It is an octavo of 650 pages, filled with descriptions, illustra- 
execution of this and of all the volumes or reports is obviously 
ue, in no small measure, to the taste, | judgment and 
one view through the medium of luminous, graphic and illus- 
trated descriptions. The author not He himself to mere 
delineation, as he passes from object to object, takes | to 
| us in their subsisting mutual connections ano depen- 
dencies, and to explain in each : the distinctive uses of 
ts, the modes of gene ti — the — vad 
| ae ele &: 
= gi ae 
$ conce’ an 
eC mind, often 
ArT n those two 
: Ax. Jour. Sci.—Srcoxp Serres, Vou. XLIX, No. 146,—Maxcg, 1870. 
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