A catalogue of the exhibits is supplied which was 
printed at the Government printing gffice, Singapore, 
in 1893• It is very hard to find any particular ex¬ 
hibit in the catalogue, or to find the place in the 
collection of any particular specimen catalogued. 
The exhibits are catalogued under various headings, 
such as Food Stuffs, Oils, Dyes, &c•, and each , 
specimen bears a label on which should appear its 
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description, the place whence it comes, together 
with a reference to the page of the catalogue and 
serial number therein under which it may be found. 
The serial numbers in the catalogue are extremely 
tiresome, The catalogue was apparently compiled 
from lists of exhibits sent in by different set le- 
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ments, states, or individuals, and no attempt seems 
to have been made to bring the numbers into harmony 
with the paging of the catalogue. For ins tan ce 
the catalogue begins with food stuffs and the speci¬ 
mens of the different varieties of padi exhibited 
are not numbered at all. Then on page 4 comes Flour 
and the first specimen is numbered 470 and on page 
5 the numbers, instead of being consecutive, are 
out of all order. It is evident that the catalogue 
was not compared with the collection before being 
printed. It is perhaps not surprising that a 
number of specimens are unidentified and that their 
labels contain no reference to the page and number in 
the catalogue. 
5 . So far as regards the collection, the 
specimens of each part 4 — — "*uct have been put to 
gether for the most part, but as some of the tapioca 
shown 
