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4.  INDICATE BRIEFLY THE CONDITION OF THE EXHIBITION SERIES AND THE STUDY SERIES, IN YOUR DEPARTMENT.

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The specimens on exhibition speak for themselves:-  They present the best illustration of the technical development of the reproductive or multiplying arts to be found on exhibition anywhere, - whether here or in Europe.  That does not, however, say that the collection is complete.  It needs piecing out in many places, and in others the substitution of better specimens for those now shown is very desirable.
The division illustrating the various methods of drawing and printing is still very incomplete, altho' full of interest, even in its present state.
In the division illustrating the application of printing to the industrial arts, only a beginning has been made.
A "study series" hardly exists, the specimens in the storage cases being, mostly, of a kind similar to those on exhibition.  The collection of patents might be made useful to students, or rather to seekers of information of a practical kind, but it has practically been abandoned, for the present at least, and [[strikethrough]] was [[/strikethrough]] ^under the prevailing condition of things it ^is inaccessible to the public.