JAflAICA. 
This collection is particularly rich in starches — arrow-root, 
mandioca, and banana meal being excellently represented. 
Wall. — The Woods of Jamaica. 
An excellent and very complete collection of the principal 
woods of the island. 
HEXICO. 
Cases 50 and 51 A. — Mexican seeds, cereals, gums and* 
oils. 
Wall.— This space is designed for the timbers of Mexico, 
of which the Museum secured a large and complete set, now in 
preparation for installation. 
Cases 52 and 53A. — Mexican textiles. 
Cases 54: and 55A.— Medicinal plants of Mexico. 
DESTRUCTIVE DISTILLATION OF WOOD. 
Case 53. — Monographic set. This set includes almost all 
of the products of the destructive distillation of the beech and 
birch ; notable among which are creosote, acetic acid, methyl 
alcohol, benzol, benzine, and oil of birch. 
GALLERIES OF THE NORTH COURT. 
Case 54. — Insects injurious to the paper pulp tree. A com- 
plete and very interesting monographic collection of the insect 
enemies of the spruce tree of Europe, showing the mutations of 
each species, and examples of the injury wrought by them. 
On the two lower shelves are arranged the various forms of 
carbolic acid and its compounds with different metals. 
