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Case 69B. — Louisiana Cane Fiber, 
Case 69C. — Pineapple Fiber. 
Case 70. — Spanish Moss, Cypress Bark, Raphia, and Grass. 
Case 71 A. — Intermixed Ramie and Silk. 
Case 71 B. — Dressed Flax. 
Case 71A. — Ramie Yarns, natural and dyed. 
Case 72. — Saw Palmetto and African Fiber. 
Case 72A. — Cocoanut and Pine-Needle Fibers. 
Cases 73 and 73A, — Flax, Dressed and undressed. 
SYLVA OF THE UNITED STATES. 
West Wall. — A nearly complete collection of the Leaves, 
Fruits, and Woods of the trees of our country, accompanied by 
graphic maps showing the distribution of each species. This fine 
CO lection is arranged systematically, and affords an excellent op- 
portunity for comparison between allied woods. The richness of 
our sylva in oaks and conifers is strikingly exemplified. 
Cases 74 to 78 A. — A set of twenty monographs of North 
American trees. Each species in this set is illustrated by a large 
distribution map ; photo-micrographs of three sections of the wood, 
horizontal, tangential, and radial; a branch in full leaf and fruit; 
microscopic sections of the wood in three planes, and a section of 
trunk showing the bark. 
Standards 79 and 79 A. — Specimens of Pine, showing the 
method of tapping for turpentine. 
Case 80.— Indurated fiber ware. Examples, crude and fin- 
ished, of the method of converting spruce wood into various house- 
hold articles. 
GALLERIES OF THE EAST COURT. 
Case 81. Paper pulp. Crude and partially manufactured 
specimens, showing the utilization of spruce wood in the manu- 
facture of all grades of paper. 
Cases 81 and 83. — Timber tests. Standards representing 
the results of strain upon various species of American timbers. 
MONOGRAPHS OF AMERICAN TIMBER TREES. 
The wall spaces between cases 8i and 86 are in process of in- 
stallation with groups representing the various more commercial 
