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relative abundance throughout the state and the uses to which they are 
generally applied. 
Arranged as transparencies in the windows is (7) a series of sections ot 
the woods of the state cut across the grain, only one four-hundreth of an 
inch thick. These are veritable works of fine art in the line of wood cut- 
ting, and products of a machine and process devised for the scientific study 
and display of woods oy Prof. Romeyn B. Hough, of Lowville, N. Y., to 
whom was entrusted the charge of making the exhibit. 
Besides the above, the display includes also several manufactured articles 
PROF. ROMEYN B. HOUGH, of New York, 
In Charge of the Exhibit. 
of wood, but the aim has been to make it as complete an exhibit as possible 
of the various native and naturalized trees of the state rather than a dis- 
play of manufactured products. There are one hundred and six species 
represented, and from a dendrological standpoint it is probably the most 
complete exhibit ever made of any region. 
Mr. Hough, who is in charge of the New York exhibit, is one of the most 
intelligent and enterprising men in the state of New York, and the state 
World’s Fair managers did a wise thing when they selected him to plan and 
have charge of the display. He is engaged in the study of woods and pub- 
lishes a unique and very valuable book entitled ‘‘ American Woods” in 
