EDITORIAL.  85 
(Sbitorial  Hepartment. 
Universal  exhibition  of  human  industry,  to  be  held  at  Paris  in  1855. 
The  exhibitions  of  industry  at  Paris  have  heretofore  been  confined  to  French 
products,  but  the  great  success  of  the  London  universal  exhibition,  induced 
the  French  government  to  announce,  in  1852,  that  a  similarly  conducted 
exhibition  would  be  held  three  years  from  that  time  in  Paris,  open  to  all 
nations.  The  British  government,  duly  estimating  the  importance  of  these 
international  assemblages,  has  voted  $250,000  to  defray  the  expenses  of  the 
carriage  of  the  British  deposits  to  and  from  the  port  of  Havre.  The  entire 
space  in  the  apartments  devoted  to  the  articles  for  exhibition  is  900,000 
superficial  feet,  of  which  150,000,  or  one  sixth,  has  been  allotted  to  Great 
Britain  and  her  colonies.  The  Chemists  and  Pharmaceutists  of  London 
have  been  moving  in  the  matter  since  last  summer,  and  have  a  regularly 
organized  Committee.  So  far  as  we  are  aware,  but  little  interest  has  been 
as  yet  manifested  on  this  side  of  the  ocean,  yet  much  may  have  been  quietly 
prepared.  A  commission  consisting  of  Dr.  Alfred  L.  Kennedy,  Hon.  Jas. 
Y.  McLanahan,  Dr.  James  Swaim,  Hon.  W.  L.  Helfenstine,  C.  L.  Ward, 
Esq.,  Hon.  Jeremiah  S.  Black,  Jno.  M.  Grier,  Esq.,  Wm,  H.  Welch,  Esq., 
Pierce  Butler,  Esq.,  and  Fred.  Fraley,  Esq.,  have  been  appointed  by  Gover- 
nor Bigler,  on  behalf  of  the  State  of  Pennsylvania. 
For  the  information  of  our  readers,  we  copy  the  following  from  the 
London  Pharmaceutical  Journal  for  September,  1854. 
Brief  summary  of  the  conditions  upon  which  the  exhibition  will  be  conducted, 
"  1st.  The  exhibition  will  open  in  Paris  on  the  1st  of  May,  1855. 
2d.  The  French  Commission  will  communicate  only  with  exhibitors  from 
foreign  countries,  through  the  Commission  appointed  by  each  country  for 
that  purpose. 
3d.  No  article  will  be  admitted  from  foreign  countries,  except  with  the 
sanction  of  such  French  Commission. 
4th.  Every  article  produced  or  obtained  by  human  industry,  whether  of 
Raw  Materials,  Machinery,  Manufactures  or  Fine  Arts,  is  admissible, 
except 
I.  Living  animals  and  plants. 
II.  Substances  liable  to  become  putrid  from  keeping. 
III.  Detonating  and  other  dangerous  substances. 
IV.  Articles  of  extravagant  size. 
5th.  All  goods  must  reach  Paris  between  the  15th  of  January  and  the  15th 
of  March,  1855  ;  which  period  may,  in  a  few  exceptional  cases,  be  extended 
to  the  15  th  of  April. 
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