Sweden.
Among the specimens of raw produce transmitted at alate period of the Exhibition from Sweden , the Jurydesire to particularize, as meriting Honourable Mention,the fine examples of raw silk exhibited by Her Majestythe Queen of Sweden (1348).
Very fine examples of silk are shown in the IndianDepartment, from which the Jury select, as meriting thePrize Medal, the following exhibitors:—
D. Jakdine, of Calcutta (p. 891).
C. R. Jennings, of Commercolly (p. 892).
Mackenzie Brothers, of Bengal (p. 892).
W. McNair, of Surdah, Bengal (p. 891).
Watson, of Surdah, Bengal (p. 891).
The specimens of silks exhibited from Mysore deserveEspecial Mention.
The raw silk from Persia exhibited by Mr. Thompson(3, p. 1426), likewise receives Honourable Mention.
In the Chinese Department, the quality of the silkdeveloped in the native country of the silkworm is wor-thily illustrated by the specimens exhibited by Yun-kee,of Shang-hae (p. 1418), to whom the Jury, therefore, ad-judge the Prize Medal.
The Jury regard the specimens of silk, exhibited inthis Department, by Messrs. Astell and Co. (p. 1422),Mr. C. J. Braine fp. 1424), Mr. Hammond (p. 1425),and Mr. Lindsay (1422), as severally meriting Honour-able Mention.
In this colony the cultivation of the silkworm hasbeen greatly promoted by the company formed by theexertions of M. E. Dupont, of Port Louis (2, 956), andthe Jury award to him the Prize Medal, for the excellentqualities of the white silk which he has transmitted.
Amongst the specimens of raw silk from the RomanStates the Jury find worthy of Honourable Mention:—
D. Berretta (6, p. 1285), and M. Bolcain (38).
In those from Malta the Jury award Honourable Men-tion to
G. Pulis (4, p. 944).
England.
The specimens of silk, from silkworms reared on leavesof the white mulberry, at Godaiming, Surrey, and ex-hibited by Mrs. Catherine Dodge (32, p. 197*), possessqualities which, considering the unfavourable conditionsof climate, have deserved, in the opinion of the Jury,Honourable Mention.
The Jury regard the raw silk exhibited in the Cana-dian Department, by Messrs. MacKay and Co. (144, p.966), as deserving Honourable Mention.
An instructive and comprehensive collection of feathersand down, in different states of preparation for bed-stuf-fing, including English goose feathers, Irish goose andmixed feathers, Dantzic feathers, Russian goose feathers,and mixed duck feathers, Hudson’s Bay goose and duckfeathers, Russian down and Greenland eider-down, areexhibited by Messrs. Heal and Sons (59, p. 199*), ofwhich the Jury desire to make Honourable Mention.
Messrs. W. and C. Nightingale (57, p. 199*) exhibitan illustrative collection of feathers and down, showing theeffects of their mode of purifying feathers by steam,without the use of sulphurous gas. Of this collection theJury desire to testify their approbation by HonourableMention.
Messrs. Blytii, Hamilton, and Blyth (60, p. 199*),exhibit excellent examples of purified English white goosefeathers and of Irish white feathers, for which also theJury award Honourable Mention.
In the Russian Department good specimens of whiteBejetsk bed-feathers, grey feathers, and goose-down are
exhibited by J. Lapshin (145, p. 1371), of St. Peters-burgh.
Madame Ladighin, of Tambotf (283, p. 1375), exhibitsa fine quality of down from the breast of the goose; to-gether with articles made of goose-down.
A. Popoff, of Moscow (144, p. 1371), also shows downof the first quality.
Each of these exhibitors deserves, in the opinion of theJury, Honourable Mention.
B.— FOR D O.MES TIC OB ORNAMENTAL PUR-POSES; OR FOR THE MANUFACTUREOF IMPLEMENTS.
Oils, Wax, &e.
A class of substances was exhibited under the head of‘ oils,’ which are likely to prove of great commercial im-portance, as they possess properties differing from thefinest vegetable oils, and some of them can, it appears, besupplied in large quantities, and at moderate cost. TheJury, with a view to mark their appreciation of thisclass, awarded a Prize Medal to R. Clarence, Cape ofGood Hope (13, p. 950), for oil obtained from sheep’stails, and ‘Honourable Mention’ to G. Dominic (21, p.1434); T. Emory (18, p. 1434); F. Frank (19, p. 1434);and Holbrook and Stanley (208, p. 1450), United States ,for oil obtained from lard by pressure at a very low tem-perature.
Honourable Mention was also awarded to C. A. Jetl%Canada (109, p. 965), for oil obtained from porpoises, andwhich is used largely for lighting purposes; to C. Romer,Prussia (337, p. 1070), for a sample of oil exhibited byhim.
A Medal was awarded to Moses, Son, and Davis, NewSouth Wales (15, p. 990), for tallow.
Some fine white wax was exhibited in the Portuguese Department by M. F. Bretes (620, p. 1314), and byM. L. De Carvalho (617, p. 1314); both were awardedHonourable Mention. Honourable Mentions were like-wise awarded to M. Guiso, Sardinia (23, p. 1303), andW. Rout, Van Diemen’s Land (293, p. 998), and E. E.Visser, Netherlands (17, p. 1143), for the samples of waxexhibited by them.
Horns and Antlers.
Of these productions a great variety of fine and illus-trative specimens are exhibited; amongst which the col-lection in the Indian Department (p. 892) merits the firstnotice for the number and variety of the examples. Thereare shown the dense antlers of the Cervus Aristotelis, ofthe ‘bara sinha’ ( Cervus Duvaucellii), of the ‘Samber’( Cervus hippelaphns), of the ‘ kaher’ or barking deer( Cervus vaginalis , Boddaert), of the ‘ axis ’ ( Cervus maen-latus), of the ‘ mar’ ( Capricornis bubalind), of the ‘hog-deer ’ ( Cervus porcinus), of the ‘ Rusa,’ and other speciesof Indian deer. Horns of the great ‘ Ame'e’ buffalo ,(Bos bubalus ), of the ‘ gour’ ( Bos cavifrons), of the‘ gyal,’ and of other kinds of Indian buffalo, ox, andantelope, were also exhibited.
Canada . —A pair of fine moose-horns ( Alces Ameri-cana ) are shown in No. 99, and a second pair, No. 237,p. 965, by Mr. J. Thompson, of Three Rivers.
From the Cape of Good Hope fine buffalo horns areshown in No. 16, p. 950, by Mr. Meeseii; and rhinoceroshorns, in No. 28, p. 950, by Mr. Hanbury.
From Egypt have been transmitted horns of the bulland buffalo, of antelopes, and of the two-horned rhino-ceros.
It does not appear that any of the specimens exhibitimprovements of size or texture as the consequence ofmodifications in the food or habits of the species, super-induced to that end by the art of man. The functions ofthe Juiy, in judging between degrees of excellence asthe consequence of human ingenuity and skill, find noexercise in regard to the present class of raw materials,and the Jury therefore limit themselves to the abovenotice of some of the more remarkable collections andspecimens of ‘ horns and antlers.’
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