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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 
collection 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 7 8 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 7 9 and 7 9A. — 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. 
These galleries, now temporarily occupied by a miscellaneous 
collection in forestry, and a portion of the anthropological collection, 
are reserved for a complete forestry and economic plant collection 
of North America, to be specially made by this department. The 
various home forestry collections exhibited at the Exposition that 
were obtainable by the Museum were mostly of a more or less heter- 
ogeneous character as to shape and size, and of an ephemeral 
nature, as they were gathered while the sap was in the pores of the 
wood, and had commenced to decay in large part before the end of 
the F air. F or these reasons a few especially fine or rare specimens 
only were retained, which will be found upon the platforms along 
the North wall. 
Case 81. — Paper pulp. Crude and partially manufactured 
specimens, showing the utilization of spruce wood for the manu- 
facture of all grades of paper. 
Tree Planter. — A model of an extremely ingenious imple- 
ment, devised by Mr. Fernow, chief forester of the United States, 
and adapted to tree-planting upon large areas. 
