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course of arrangement. The director, Prof. Pennetier, readily 
conducted me through the museum. The botanical section is not 
a feature of the establishment, but the director intends to develop 
this branch in course of time. When a King ames the museum will 
be very useful and instructive, as it contain ri attractive 
exhibits. Amongst the botanical specimens I to find 
anything to call for special mention in sedition with the 
Museums of the Royal Botanfe Gardens. Adjoining this museum, 
but distinct from it, is an ancient building, in use as a Museum 
of Archeology. 
COMMERCIAL MUSEUM, ROUEN. 
This museum consists of a very erg, collection, which 
must be of great value to the commerce of the City of Rouen. 
Fibres, fabrics, together with French abd Algerian pend Sp form 
the bulk of the specimens. Cotton is particularly well repre- 
sented, a retrospective series of printed fabrics of this Eu 
together with some beautiful printing blocks in wood a l 
eing of special interest. English, Canadian, and er cotton 
materials, and Engli sh lace, as imported into Mexico, Cochin 
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illustrating the Rhea industry, and various materials employed 
for brush-making, are also to be seen. Tan addition to the above i8 
alarge number of portfolios filled with patterns of iei fabries, 
and there is also a small library attached to the muse 
JARDIN DES PLANTES, PARIS, 
The botanical section of the Museum of Natural History in 
these gardens is scientific rug than economic. The collection, 
reet chiefly of fruits arranged under their respective 
ae benii in lofty orale and table cases, is employed for 
ing purposes. Several special cases contain good models 
illustrating the life history of the cocoa-nut and coco-de-mer 
(Lodoicea sechellarum, Lab.), and also models of the “ Cambare 
of Java (Amorphophallus campanulatus, Bl.) and a model of the 
upper portion of e stem of Cycas circinalis, L., bearing a cone 
and leaves. There are also other interesting models, of dps 
workmanship, s for special mention, such, for instance, as 
ihe large series of gourds an füng i, four special cases being 
utilised for the display of the latter, many of the illustrations 
ing in section. Another group - models well displayed an 
admirable for teaching g purposes consists of a considerable col- 
lection of exotic fruits together with the foliage, the work of 
M. de Rob illard "d'Argenielle, prepared in Bourbon between the 
years 1802 and 1826, the majority of them being in excellent 
preservation. Many paintings of economie plants are 
along the tops of the cases. 
Pis extensive paleontological series of — is arranged 
separate cases in the bays of the Museum. The entrance hall 
to the collections contains trunks of tree ferns, pass &es and a 
