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production, durability, excellence in the results obtained, and artistic merit, 
riiotographic materials, for novelty or new applications, increased sensitive¬ 
ness, or powers of retention, and facilities of operating. 
Jury on Horological Instruments to take into account accuracy and cer¬ 
tainty, stability, strength, durability, simplicity, economy and goodness of 
execution ; finish to be subordinate. 
Jury on Musical Instruments to consider novelty of invention, novel appli¬ 
cation of old inventions, improvement of mechanical action, tune, perfection 
of workmanship, beauty of design combined with general excellence, in¬ 
creased facility of action, cheapness combined with durability. 
Surgical instruments to be considered with regard to novelty of a useful 
character, ingenuity in the application, extension or modification of ^irinci- 
ples already known, or for new combinations, mechanical skill, including 
cheapness and finish. 
Juries on Textile Fabrics and Classes XVIII to XXX, inclusive, to make 
their awards on the basis of increased usefulness, such as permanency of 
dyes, improved forms and arrangements, superior quality or skill in work¬ 
manship, new use of known materials, use of new materials, new combina¬ 
tions of materials, beauty of design in form or color, or boih, with reference 
to utilit}^ cheapness, relating to excellence of production. 
Metallic, Vitreous and Ceramic Manufactures to be rewarded on the 
ground of inventions or discoveries as to economy, increase or perfection of 
production, regularity of manufactures, combined with excellence of design, 
novel application of known discoveries, increased utility, combined with 
novelty and beauty, excellence of workmanship and quality. 
THE HIGH CHARACTER OF THE JURIES 
has been an occasion of universal remark. The principle of 
selection, on the nomination by exhibitors, was calculated to 
secure the most competent men present from the different 
countries in the first place, and the freedom with which juries 
were allowed to call in the aid of experts, together with the 
length of time granted them for their examinations and the 
preparation of their reports, furnished a further guaranty of 
correctness in the final awards, in which, I believe, the acqui¬ 
escence of exhibitors and public was very general and cordial. 
THE PRESENTATION OF AWARDS, 
which took place on the 12th day of July, was made the oc¬ 
casion for another splendid state ceremonial. The j uries had 
labored with faithfulness and unflagging zeal for two and a 
hdlf months, and had reported their decisions to the Koyal 
Commission; hundreds of thousands of people, including 
great numbers of the most intelligent representatives of all 
lands, had also made their examinations and pronounced their 
unofiicial verdict; the twenty-five thousand exhibitors, some 
of whom had spent years of thought and labor in making 
