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colle&ions with other Museums they might materially 
benefit our Local Museum. The specimens of our woods 
exhibited at previous exhibitions at home, were got up in 
too crude and massive a form, and were evidently badly 
collefted and prepared, exhibiting many cracks and 
flaws which tended to deter intending customers from 
making further enquiry into the matter. Small handy 
specimens, such as those forwarded to San Francisco, or 
even smaller, were much more suitable. 
Mr. Watt seconded the motion. Mr. Winter men* 
tioned that the specimens of woods sent to the London 
Exhibition of 1861, were cut in se£tions 6 inches long by 
3 inches wide and \ inch thick, but they were objefted to 
as being too small to show properly the texture of the wood, 
and it was recommended in future to send large seftions 
with bark attached. 
Mr. Nind remarked that the cracks in the large 
specimens sometimes arose from bad felling, and 
very often resulted from the drying of the blocks. 
There was a large demand in North Americaandelsewhere 
for suitable cabinet woods, and also woods for carriage- 
building, and he therefore thought that exhibiting the 
resources of our forests in the manner suggested by the 
motion was very desirable. 
Mr. Hill pointed out that the colle£tion of such complete 
specimens as those contemplated, would necessarily 
occupy a very considerable time, as unfortunately the 
Indians of the interior were not sufficiently observant to 
take note of the flowering seasons of the several forest 
trees, and so more than one or two visits of the colleftor 
would be necessary before the required information and 
specimens could be obtained. 
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