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phine Tilden, 32 fruits, seeds, and gums from the South Pacific Islands; 

 The American Trading Company of Yokohama, rice, kodzu, and bamboo 

 papers; the N. K. Fairbank Company, 16 cottonseed oil products. 

 Notwithstanding the small amount of material received, the public 

 installation has progressed satisfactorily. New material has been added 

 to the following families and the cases reinstalled to accommodate the 

 same: The Fig Family; the Nutmeg and the Arrowroot Families; the 

 Poison Ivy Family (2 cases) ; the Indian Lac Family; the Horsechestnut 

 Family; the Mallow Family; the Pea Family; and a number of other 

 cases readjusted. Ten new double cases were received in April. These 

 were installed with the following material: The Grape and the Buck- 

 thorn Families; the Vegetable-tallow Family; the Milkweed Family; 

 the Dogbane Family; the Sapodilla Family; the Verbena Family; the 

 Ebony Family; the Joint-fir Family; interesting utilizations of the 

 Bamboo; the Australian Beefwood Family; the Birch Family; the Mint 

 Family; the Bean Family; the Orchid Family; the Potato Family; the 

 Ginger Family; the Geranium Family; the Magnolia Family and the 

 Mushrooms. The North American Forestry exhibition has been aug- 

 mented by twenty- two monographic installations as follows : the Winged 

 Elm; Bitter Hickory; Black Ash; Kentucky Coffee-tree; Hackberry; 

 Red Birch; Sugar Maple; Blue Ash; Texan Oak; White Hickory; Per- 

 simmon; Tupelo Gum; Pecan; Sweet Gum; Pignut Hickory; Shagbark 

 Hickory; Sassafras; Swamp Cottonwood; Southern White Oak; Overcup 

 Oak; Red Maple; and Box Elder. Ten other species are prepared and 

 await cases. The following productions in the Section of Modeling 

 have played a large part in the installation accomplished during the 

 year: Ten different, growing mushroom colonies representative of as 

 many edible or poisonous species; a full size plant of Mirmecodium 

 illustrating the peculiar utilization of its bulbous base as a nest by ant 

 colonies ; a large, natural size branch of the Great Magnolia in full leaf, 

 flower bud, flower and fruit, reproducing the freshly opened flower as 

 well as those of several days' anthesis; a natural size branch of the 

 Bilimbi tree, of Sumatra, in full leaf, flower and fruit; a fruiting branch 

 of the East Indian Carambola; an enlarged flower of the common Sorrel 

 illustrating family characteristics; a large, leafy, fruiting, and flowering 

 branch of the peculiar Joint-fir of the tropics which join the exogenous 

 (wood-heart) and the endogenous (fiber-heart) trees, also an enlarged 

 flower cluster and two enlarged flowers of the same ; a full size branch 

 of the Maidenhair tree in full leaf and fruit; an enlarged flower of 

 the Cardamom, somewhat like a pineapple in appearance, eaten as 

 a vegetable in the Oriental tropics ; a full size cluster of leafy, flowering, 

 and fruiting vines of the Vanilla plant ; a natural size flower and leaf of 



