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Very few of the sections contained specimens of raw vegetable 
products. T raguayan exhibits were the best in this respect 
Liberia, Chili, and San Domingo were also r ted, but 
represented 
ot ER of a novel character in the courts or worthy of 
special mentio 
The Ant were Chamber of Commerce ue a fine collection of 
raw and manufactured tobaccos, various s of Turkish tobacco 
being especially striking and similar t those contained in the 
Commercial Museum of Brussels. 
ne collection of plain and ornamental straw plaits 
from Chefoo, together with a series of China teas, were the only 
other exhibits of special interest observed in a hurried visit. 
CONGO EXHIBITION, TERVUEREN. 
The Congo section of the Brussels Exhibition is located at 
Tervueren, some few miles out of Brussels, from whence it is 
s Herne either nd rail or electric tram. The Congo exhibits 
were contained in a large building the centre portion of which 
was dod. S a restaurant, while the two side wings were occupied 
by the collections. On the one side was the ethnographical 
section which consisted of a very large and varied assortment of 
arranged in ai formed of the wood of Sa arcocephalus Diderrichii, 
and typifying Congoese architecture, being very tastefully dis- 
played. To add to the interest of the collection a frieze runs 
of native life on the Congo. Unfortunately the ethnographical 
objects were unlabelled at the time of my visit. e corre- 
dni edd court on the other side of the building contained the 
products of the Congo, together with a Commercial Museum, this 
latter consist ng of a medley of articles which find a market in 
the Congo region. 
The collection of vegetable products was not a large one but 
h 
copal and small parcels of the latter wrapped in leaves and netted 
over with what appears to be the split petiole of a palm. also 
noticed a series of specimens illustrating the extraction of rubber 
from the roots of Landolphia spp. by crushing , shredding, and 
mastication. This court also contained some splendid photo- 
graphs illustrating sugar-making, decorticating rice, the collection 
of palm wine, tobacco fields, specimen it and an illustration 
of the mode of collecting rubber from which it seems that the 
vine is bent over and the milk runs from deep cuts made round 
the stem into pots suspended to receive it. 
conservatory at the back of the building contained many 
living plants of the Congo, of more or less economic interest, on 
loan from the Royal Botanic Garden, Brussels, and from eher 
sources. 
A typical Congo village forms part of the E UT but as 
e ecce had left, little of interest remained e epting the 
