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JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS.   137 

VENEZUELA.
Mr. LEON DE LA COVA, Commissioner.

The entire exhibit made by this country of minerals, ores, articles of materia medica, fruits, fibers, extracts, &c.

In general it may be stated that from the countries mentioned in the foregoing, the exhibits made by the commissioners in behalf of their respective governments, so far as relates to the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms, and their applications have been presented to the United States; in some cases without any exception whatever, in others all except a few duplicates which were presented to other foreign commissions, or to institutions in the United States. Indeed, the only countries from which absolutely nothing was received were, Denmark, Luxembourg, Bahamas, British Guiana, Cape of Good Hope, and Jamaica; the exhibit of these countries being either entirely private property or borrowed from the colonial museum in London, and necessarily returned.