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completeness with which every exhibit is made to tell its own 
story to the student, there remains, and will, it is to be hoped long 
remain, the evidence of Mr Archer’s loving care and devotion to his 
work. 
Mr Archer was appointed one of the jurors of the International 
Exhibition of 1862, and, along with Mr Peterson of the office of 
Crown Domains in St Petersburg, wrote an official report on the 
vegetable substances used in manufactures shown at that Exhibition. 
His services in relation to this work were acknowledged by a medal; 
and in the following year he was appointed a Corresponding Mem- 
ber of the Ministry of Crown Domains of Russia. He acted as 
Associate Commissioner at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1867, 
and reported on the class of exhibits connected with forest products, 
for which report he received three medals. In 1870 he reported on 
the International Exhibition in London; and in 1871 he was com- 
missioned by the British Government to attend the Exhibition at 
Moscow and Copenhagen. He was appointed a member of the 
Committee for Selection of the annual International Exhibition of 
1872, for which Exhibition also he acted as Deputy Commissioner 
for Scotland. In 1873 he was appointed a juror at the Vienna 
Exhibition held in that year, and he prepared several reports for the 
British Commission in connection with it. His services at this 
Exhibition were acknowledged by the decoration of a Commander 
of the Order of Franz- Joseph of Austria. In the same year he 
was awarded the gold medal of the Russian Ministry of Crown 
Domains; and, in recognition of literary and scientific merit, was 
appointed Chevalier of the Order of St Hiago of Portugal. In 
1876 Mr Archer was appointed Executive Commissioner for Great 
Britain and Ireland, along with Colonel Sandford, at the Phila- 
delphia Exhibition of 1876, and in recognition of this service he 
was awarded a medal. In 1878 he acted as one of the jurors in 
the Paris Universal Exhibition of that year. 
Mr Archer was connected with many literary and scientific 
societies. He was a director of the Royal Institution of Liverpool, 
a life member of the Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society, 
an honorary member of the Liverpool Chemists’ Association, a 
member of the Liverpool Microscopical Society (of which he was for 
several years secretary), an honorary member of the Birkenhead 
