SPECIAL EXHIBITION OF MINING AND METALLURGY IN CONNECTION 
WITH THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE. 
i. *At the request of the Council of the Imperial Institute, it is proposed to form a 
complete collection of Mineralogical Specimens to illustrate the Mining and Metallur¬ 
gical industries of the Peninsula. These specimens will be exhibited in the Imperial 
Institute, and will form a permanent reference series illustrating the mineral wealth 
of the Peninsula. 
2. Specimens, which should be of a fairly large size, should show the ore, the 
bed or rock in which it occurs and the metal prepared by {a) native (6) European 
methods. Such specimens should be carefully labelled with locality, depths, probable 
extent of reef, name of collector, and any other useful information connected with 
the specimen. 
3. The collections to illustrate this should Include all minerals, ores, rock 
formations, and apparatus, photographs, etc. to illustrate :— 
(a) The working of mines. 
(b) Appliances and materials used in mines and in connection with mining 
and quarrying. , 
(c) Recent successful processes and appliances for the treatment of ores. 
(d) Novel metallurgic processes. 
(e) Metals, alloys, bye-products of metallurgic operations and their uses 
(f) Rocks, etc., susceptible of use for building or other economic purposes, 
(g) Other minerals or products of mineral origin applied to economic uses. 
c. g., coal, graphite, etc. 
. h) Gems, illustration of working of gems and their treatment. 
( O Metal work, economic and ornamental, hut no expensive specimens are 
to be purchased without sanction of the Committee. 
4. All specimens should be sent to the c jo Honorary Secretaries, Imperial 
Institute Committee, old Hospital. Kandang Kerbau, Singapore, between 16th and 30th 
June next. 
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Singapore . 23rd March. iSyi . 
H. N. RIDLEY,! 
\V. DAVISON, s 
Fi onorarv 
Secretaries. 
