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national Exhibition—specimens illustrative of a Geological subject 
replete with interest in its economical relations to a manufacturing 
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which exhibition space was estimated in the Superintendent’s Report 
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The instructive series of Crystals accompanying the above donation 
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Erom the Spanish Department of the International Exhibition 
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Erom the Canadian Department the Mineralogy has received, by 
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Erom the Australian Department the Zoology has received a 
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