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^ Kip leather. 5 Crop leather. 6 Half-dozen sheep-skins.7 One good sheep-skin (not tanned).
Specimens of tanning and black dyeing barks.
0 Smith, J. A. — Specimen or soap, manufactured inAuckland, New Zealand.
7 St. John’s College.—No. 1 Specimens of clothft nd hat made by a native lad, aged 17 years, from wool?rown, clean, carded, spun, and woven at St. John’s College,*nd dyed with native woods. 2 Hat made by Nicholas Cod,Pensioner, Howick, New Zealand.
Specimens of basket work: made by J. Meagher, pen-sioner, Howick.
8 Hargreaves, J.—Specimen of lignite, from thebanks of the Tamaki.
9 Greenwood, W.—Specimens of coal.
10 Connell, W. (as Secretary of the Auckland andWaikato Coal Company.)—Specimens of Waikato coal.
11 Taylor, J.—Geological specimens of the copper3e tfes from the Kawau Company’s mine, Kawau.
, 12 Reeve, J.—Specimens of copper ore from Whita-
® er & Heale’s mine, Kawau:—1 Yellow ore. 2 Blue ore.n 13 Lewis, T.—Specimens of copper ore: Specimens from"feat Barrier Island Mine, 35 miles N.N.E. of Auckland.
M 14 Smith, J. A.—Two specimens from Brodie’s mine,■nongonui, 100 miles to the northward of Auckland.Specimen of iron sand, obtained in large quantities inupper’s Bay, Auckland.
Specimen of sulphur, from White Island, Bay of Plenty,a the east coast of the Northern Island, New Zealand.
,, 15 Mf.urant, E. — Specimen of pumice stone, from
e banks of the river Waikato.
16 Brown, W.—Specimen of Kauri gum.
17 Greenwood, W.—Specimens of building stone.
18 Brown, W.—Specimen of limestone, from Wangarei.g 19 Smito, J. A.—Specimens of Roman cement stone.'toj 1Inen sharks’ fin. Specimens of flax seed and orchilla
of ,20 Balnea vis, Lieut. H. C. II. M. 58th Regt.—Model
Zealand war pah.
Wti r J ° nNSON > —^' fteen specimens of New Zealand
The Waikato Coal Committee, Auckland.—Spe-of coal.
p »nc iias, Rev. A. — Specimens of iron ore and^eatone.
Sp e J^ Low & Motion.— Specimen of native grown maize,ifcen of Maori wheat and flour.
Cakadus, J.—Specimens of Now Zealand flax: twine
King, M* es > ^ ew Plymouth. — Reticule, made oftefp ^^land flax, dyed from New Zealand woods, the pat-udwork copied*from the mat of a New Zealander,f Liuar, C.— Drawing ofWhite Island by G. Hcaphy.2a i v RRel, J. Prof. — Specimens of native flax and wool.Wktn , v I Tn * J* A.—Specimen of oil, from the hump-
30 cau KLt at the Bay of Plenty.
a nd Cam i m 0D » —Specimens of Manganese, from Brown
31 l ftn d at Waihaka, 15 miles from Auckland.^ a rwhin ? ecimc » floor presented by the natives of Ran-
32 w l lca t grown by Maories.
^ a P a mah IIITE . LY > Rev. J.—Specimen of a native box ofanuara, in which the natives keep their head dresses.
33 Taylor, T. E.—The grub of “ Sphinx” destroyed bya vegetable fungus found under the rata tree.
34 Whytlaw & Son. — Specimen of flax (Phormumtenax) cleaned by machinery.
35 Bourne, W.—Specimen of iron-casting. The firstcasting at Auckland Foundry, 18th Dec. 1850.
36 McLeod, U.—Specimen of salted mullet.
37 Moore, P. G. 30 Arundel St. Strand, Prop.—Litho-graphic picture of a native village, or Pah, in New Zealand,situated in Cook’s Straits;—after a large original, now inLondon, by Professor Gilfillan. Six water-colour drawingsand six steel engravings of New Zealand subjects. Fournative mats or garments. One greenstone Mari or chief sclub. Three specimens of greenstone. One carved box.One war-club. Native fishing net and fishing hooks. Twobottles of insects. Specimens of native grasses. Largemap of New Zealand.
38 Articles brought by the “ Lord William Bentinck,”from Wellington:—Thirteen packages, containing table-top,composed of nineteen specimens of Taraseki woods. Fivesamples of Workan coals. Native basket, with four hanksof flax. Suviri or iron-wood. Earthy substance, collectedat the town of New Plymouth, and supposed to be alum in avery pure state. New Plymouth iron-sand in its naturalstate. Unwased barley, from St. Vincent’s, Nelson.
39 Malt and hops, made and grown by Hooper andCo. Coals from Massoere Bay, taken from an open pit on thebeach. Sandstone, native fishfork and net. Specimens ofdyed flax, tanned leather, canogreen moss, &c.
40 Lucas, R. & Co., 35 South Audley St. -- Specimensof New Zealand woods, comprising octagon table-top, ve-neered with eleven specimens ; sofa table-top. veneeredwith three specimens ; small circular inlaid table; a wat-not, with twisted columns, veneered with three specimens;a papeterie, with hinged flap and sliding screet panels,fluted with green silk.
LABUAN, AND OTHER PARTS OE THEEASTERN ARCHIPELAGO.
1 Grey, The Countess.—Cloth manufactured by theSeribas, in Borneo. Cloth made by the Mellanoes, inBorneo; sent home by Governor Sir James Brooke. 29drawings of Borneo plants.
2 Hammond, W. P. & Co. Merchants, London.
Specimens of sugar; coffee; sago, pearl; sago, common;
sago, flour; pepper, black; pepper, white; nutmegs; mace;cloves; gambler; cutch; gum gamboge; gnm benjamin ;gum lac; rice; tortoiseshell; turtleshell; M. O. P. shells;elephants' teeth; elephants’ grinder; gutta pcrcha; gumcaoutchouc, or India-rubber; gum damma; isinglass, manu-factured in the Archipelago from the interior membranes offish, and valued on account of its highly glutinous character.
A series of thirty-six paintings, by a Malay artist.
A model made to scale of a sailing-boat used by the na-tives in the China Seas for smuggling and piracy.
Specimens of rattans, bamboos, &c., grown in and importedfrom the Eastern Archipelago.
3 Woolley, W. Sec. to the Eastern Archipelago Co.34 Cornhill.—Bark cloth, manufactured by the Dyaks ofBorneo. Specimens of hard wood from Borneo; and surfacecoal from Labuan.