EXPOSITION OF 1867. 
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Class 94.—Products of all sorts made by master workmen, (products distin¬ 
guished for their own qualities, novelty, perfection of the 
method of work, or by the useful influence this kind of work 
may exercise on the moral and physical condition of the 
people.) 
95 —Instruments and methods of work peculiar to master workmen, 
(manual works which, from various causes, have most success¬ 
fully resisted the competition of machines, &c. &c.) 
MULTITUDE OF THE EXHIBITS. 
In 1798, when the first national industrial exhibition of 
which we have record, was held in the Champ de Mars, but 
one hundred and ten exhibitors responded to the call of the 
French government. And even when, in 1851, Great Britain 
cordially invited all the nations of the world to place their 
products in friendly competition in the Crjstel Palace, but 
13,947 entries were made. Five years later, the number at 
Paris was 23,954. In 1862, it rose to 28,653. A vast num¬ 
ber of exhibitors truly—all the greater, too, when it is remem¬ 
bered that not unfrequently one single exhibitor exhibits very 
many distinct articles. What then shall we say of the Expo¬ 
sition of 1867, at which the number of exhibitors was no less 
than 50,226—almost twice as large as the largest number ever 
represented before! 
In view of these figures and of the great variety in the 
articles, as shown by the preceding system of classification, the 
impracticability of considering them in general, much less 
in detail, within proper limits, must be at once apparent. I 
shall make no apology, therelore, for confining my report to 
such general illustrations of industrial and national progress 
as were most forcibly presented by the Exposition. 
THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES. 
In no department of industry do we find more marked evi¬ 
dences of progress than in that which deals with nature at first 
hand, with the view of deriving the utmost and most imme¬ 
diate advantage from the cheap production of the raw material 
of the best quality. 
The Art of Mining has made yet further advances, not only 
through the more general application of geological science 
