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[[left margin: a blue line to the end of this paragraph]] work on foods, and chemical collections.  The new material from New Orleans will undoubtedly require much time to install, but besides that it only remains to perfect a system of classification for the textiles, which has not yet been done.

Mr. Smith borrowed specimens number 5233, 5234, 5237 for the Southern Exhibition at Louisville, to illustrate Hawaiian products.

Mr. Thomas Taylor received a small sample of vegetable tallow from China, No. 57402, for use in some experiments in the microscopical characteristics of fats, August 4th. 

The following advertisement has been several times inserted in the Photographic Times by the Scovill Manufacturing Co. of New York, for the purpose of obtaining for the museum a set of apparatus for exhibition.  As yet only one reply has been received by me, from Mr. E. H. Alley, of Toledo,