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be obtained, and to interest such persons and afford 
them all necessary information and assistance. 
I think we should, in this way, be more likely to en- 
list the co-operation of those who, as a rule, do not ex- 
hibit, and to remove many difficulties which tend to dis- 
courage an intending exhibitor. 
Prizes, of course, will be offered for the best speci- 
mens &c, at the Local Exhibition in 1885, and it should 
be stipulated that any exhibits may be retained and sent 
by the Committee to the London Exhibition of 1886. At 
the option of the exhibitor, such selected articles might 
either be bought by the Exhibition Committee — in which 
case they would of course be exhibited in the name of the 
said Committee, or they might only be lent to the Com- 
mittee — in which latter case it would only be just that 
such articles should bear the name of the owner. 
The General Committee should, as soon as practica- 
ble, form an estimate of what bottles, jars, or boxes, 
cases, &c, will be required for the efficient and attrac- 
tive exhibition of specimens ; so that a supply may be pro- 
vided in the colony or from Europe. And, as it will not 
be possible to form such an estimate before it becomes, in 
some degree, evident what number of exhibits can be 
got together, the Exhibition Committee should at once 
order from England a considerable supply of bottles and 
glass vessels, both for food-products, and for natural 
history specimens. Of these some may be sold, at cost 
price, to those undertaking to exhibit in their own names ; 
others should be used by the Exhibition Committee for 
the specimens which they themselves intend to exhibit. 
Much stress was laid by Mr. KlRKE on the poor appear- 
ance at the Calcutta Exhibition of some British Guiana 
