THE INDUSTRIAL SECTION. 
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1. Gums, resins, India rubber, lac, kino. 
2. Oils, oil seeds, oil cakes, soap and waxes. 
3. Dyes, tans, e.g, indigo and cutch. 
4. Fibres: silk, cotton, jute, wool. 
5. Medicinal products and indigenous drugs. 
6. Narcotics: opium, Indian hemp and tobacco. 
7. Food substances : sugar, starch, cereals. 
8. Timbers. 
In the centre of the gallery are displayed the finished 
commercial articles as they are produced by Indian factories. 
The wall-cases are constructed under three divisions; the 
larger glass cases exhibit the more important products ; 
sloping cases contain articles of secondary importance; while 
on the walls of the bays are placed all other substances of 
the same class alphabetically arranged in glass-faced index 
boxes. The object of this gallery has been to give in a bird’s- 
eye view an illustration of the trade and commerce of the 
country. 
The Reporter on Economic Products as noticed above, 
was placed in charge of the Economic and Art Section when 
the collections were transferred to the new building. The 
duty of this officer was to collect and arrange information 
by means of a system of ledgering of agricultural and com¬ 
mercial products, and to publish the results when enquiry 
was sufficiently^ advanced, The organ of the department 
was the ‘^Agricultural Ledger,” a publication serving as a 
supplement to the “ Dictionary of Economic Products ” edited 
during 1889 to 1893 by Dr. (now Sir) George Watt. The work 
of the officer was also to collect specimens mentioned in the 
Dictionary, to identify samples and to give information to 
correspondents all over India. Such work was inseparable 
from the Economic Court, where authentic specimens were 
received, studied and scientifically arranged under their 
respective subjects. New material was constantly .being 
brought together and constituted a bureau of economic in¬ 
formation found nowhere else in the East. At one time it was 
intended to revise the “ Dictionary of Economic Products’’ 
and bring it up to date, but it was considered that a work 
