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model cottages, restaurants, besides houses for pumping and blowing 

 engines, boilers, &c, connected with the ventilation, steam and 

 water supplies to the Exhibition generally. In one corner of the 

 park, which has been railed off, a jardin reserve was formed, in 

 which exhibitions of fruits, flowers, and vegetables were periodically- 

 held ; and one interesting part of this garden was the establishment 

 of two huge aquariums, for salt and fresh water fish respectively. 



It has already been stated that the building is arranged in a 

 series of annular galleries, and each of these devoted to the ex- 

 hibition of a certain class of objects; thus, the innermost circle 

 contained a collection illustrative of the History of Labour from 

 the earliest known period. Gallery No. I. contained Works of Art, 

 including paintings, sculptures, &c. ; No. II. Apparatus and appli- 

 cation of the Liberal Arts ; No. III. Furniture, and other articles 

 for the use of dwellings ; No. IV. Clothing, and other articles of 

 wearing apparel ; No. Y. Eaw and Manufactured Products ; and 

 No. YI. Machinery, including instruments and processes employed 

 in the useful Arts. Outside of the machinery gallery a smaller 

 court was devoted to the exhibition of Articles of Food in different 

 degrees of preparation, where also were restaurants of all nations, 

 in which trial might be made of all the Continental, English, 

 American, and Oriental styles of preparing and serving up food. 



In order the better to show such various agricultural operations 

 as could not be carried on within the limits of the Champ de Mars, 

 an Exhibition was organized on the Island of Billancourt, where 

 competitions and trials of agricultural machines took place for the 

 purpose of enabling the juries to make their awards. And an 

 exhibition of live stock was likewise held fortnightly at the same 

 place. 



The total number of exhibitors was upwards of 42,000, show- 

 ing a considerable increase on any previous Exhibition. Thus, in 

 1851 the number of exhibitors was under 14,000; in 1855 there 

 were 24,000, and in 1862 the number did not quite come up to 

 29,000. 



The Exhibition illustrative of the History of Art was certainly a 

 novel feature, but it contained articles more stictly adapted for a 

 museum than for an Industrial Exhibition. In this respect it was 

 somewhat out of place, and, irrespective of the interesting nature of 

 its contents, its introduction possessed no charm to recommend it 

 beyond that of novelty. 



The collection of pictures could not for one moment compare 

 with that of 1862, since they were all to have been produced within 

 the last 12 years, and consequently the works of ancient masters 

 were necessarily excluded. England could make but little show, 

 since the best examples of her paintings admissible under the rules 

 are private property. The French collection was large rather than 



