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•of the Chicago Directorate ruling that the various ex- 
hibits should go into the building of their classes, so 
that the show of British Guiana would have been split 
up into several divisions. The Committee objected 
strongly to this, saying that in such a case the colony 
would not be represented at all, but there would simply 
be a show of timber, minerals or sugar. After some cor- 
respondence it was at last agreed that space should 
be granted for a British Guiana Court, where all 
the exhibits could be brought together, this to be 
sixty feet long and thirty wide, with half the same 
area in addition for the Indian benabs, &c, and their 
occupants. 
The various sub-committees all set to work to put 
matters in train for procuring exhibits. Some arranged 
to collect at once, others, such as those for perishable 
sugars and food substances, thinking it better to wait 
until the last quarter of the year. Up to the present, 
arrangements have been made for exhibits of ethnology 
and natural history, timber and their manufacture. 
Under the auspices of the Consul of Portugal, 
Senhor das nevers e Mello, an auxiliary Committee 
of Portuguese colonists has agreed to collect some 
of the articles for which our fellow citizens of 
that nationality are famed. That more show is not 
being made, is due to the faft that there is a diffi- 
culty in connection with the stowage of exhibits 
which will become serious a few months hence. A few 
articles are stowed in the new gallery of the Museum, 
but this will only suit small things, while for the heavy 
timbers, a shed will have to be ere6led on the mud lot 
near Messrs. De Jonge & Smith's premises, the use of 
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