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but also, so far as regards minerals, of some European lands. 
The United States, important and extensive though it is, and 
varied though are its products, has nothing biological, and 
would have nothing mineral were it not for the enterprise of 
Dr. A. E. Foote, of Philadelphia, and of the exhibitor of the 
petrified trees of Arizona, Ethnography has not been neg- 
lected in the western or Industrial Arts wing, where Greeks 
are shown painting, pottery, Egyptians engaged in weaving 
and in agricultural work; and various semi-civilized or barb- 
arous tribes occupied in their primitive methods of manufact- 
ure. Part of a hall in this wing of the main building is de- 
voted to illustrations of the anthropology of criminality; and 
not far away from this a series of wax models, in a private ex- 
hibit, showing the effects of cutaneous and syphilitic diseases 
upon the person, is more pathological than pleasing or moral, 
but proves very attractive. As a parallel to the last-mentioned 
exhibit, the veterinary collection in one of the structures near 
the river may be noticed. Here also the monsters and mal- 
formations excite much more interest than anything normal. 
In the western gallery of the wing devoted to the Industrial or 
Liberal Arts is a miscellaneous geographical collection, which 
includes a rather extensive series of the results of the dredg- 
ings executed by the Travailleur and the TaHsman in their 
various expeditions, together with the dredges used, and maps 
showing the course taken and the ocean depths. This col- 
lection contains many peculiar forms of fishes, including the 
renowned Eurypharynx pelecanoides, numerous crustaceans 
cirripeds, and pycnogonids, many echini, asteroids, crinoids 
and holothurians, and some gastropods lamellibra and 
brachiopods — all preserved in alcohol ; also a dried collection 
of sponges and corals. Taken as a whole, the so-called " Lib- 
eral Arts " Department is the most unsatisfactory, most mis- 
cellaneous, and worst-arranged part of the entire Exposition. 
Perhaps, as time wears on, a catalogue may enable an enquir- 
ing,^ visitor to see some order; but as it is, the various scholas- 
tic exhibits are an unexplained medley, and one is tempted to 
ask " Of what use are the few groups of historic, prehistoric 
and barbarous human beings, the meagre show of processes 
ind results comprised under the head of ' Histoire de Travail,' 
.11 1 the very slim attempt at illustrating comparative anatomy, 
when within the bounds of the Exhibition itself— in the Tro- 
cidero Building — there is a first-rate ethnographical col- 
lection, and a splendid series of works illustrating French art 
