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shipped to Portland, Oregon, where it will be placed on exhibition at the 

 Lewis and Clark Exposition in 1905. 



Each department of the New York Forest, Fish and Game Commission 

 was represented in its exhibit at St. Louis. That of the Forestry Depart- 

 ment was as follows: 



1. Native woods of Xew York, embracing all of the 91 species of trees 

 indigenous to the State,* two specimens of each, showing on different sides 

 a rough, planed, oiled, and varnished surface, each specimen having a 

 printed label showing both the common and the botanical name. 



_. Large photographs — 18x24 inches — of each tree, with two views 

 of each species, one showing the tree in full leaf, the other showing the 

 same tree when leafless, thus affording an opportunity for studying its 

 habit and the arrangement of limbs. Attached to each photograph were 

 specimens of leaf, flower, and fruit. 



3. Entomological Exhibit. A large table with glass show cases con- 

 taining a collection of insects injurious to forest trees, mounted so as to 

 show the insect at work on leaves or wood. Prepared expressly for this 

 exhibit by Prof. E. P. Felt, State Entomologist. 



4. Large thick "sheets" of wood pulp, ready for a paper mill, made 

 from different species of trees, the products of both chemical and mechanical 

 mills; also, utensils of various kinds, pails, tubs, etc., made of wood pulp 

 or indurated fibre. 



5. Complete collection of forest by-products, shown in glass jars of 

 uniform size arranged on a stand with circular shelves; 28 different kinds, — 

 wood alcohol, acetic acids, acetates of lime, tannic acids, dry pulp, lamp- 

 black, spruce gum, maple sugar, etc. 



6. Complete collection of tree seeds from species indigenous to New 

 York, shown in glass jars of uniform size arranged on a stand with circular 

 shelves. 



7. Scientific instruments and tools used in forestry work and in 

 lumbering operations. 



8. Sections of white pine and red spruce showing by the annular 

 rings the maximum rate of growth. 



* Specimens pf nine introduced species were also shown in this collection. 



