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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 85

The Exhibits

The Exhibits.

As the exhibits have been arranged solely with an eye to effect, and not with any idea of classification, objects of the most diverse kind are to be found on the same tables, or in the same corner of the room. Hence it is that Messrs. Ballantyne and Co.'s display of ladies' ulsters is side by side with the Hebden telephone, and the case of silversmith's work shown by Messrs. B. Petersen and Co. This case is decidedly one of the features of the exhibition, the articles within it being made of New Zealand silver, artistic in design, and of admirable workmanship. Some exceedingly creditable specimens of flower-painting by Misses Banks and Budden are placed next to the every complete and interesting exhibit of oculists' materials and appliances shown by Mr. T. R. Procter. Mr. Gager's case of chest expanders is worth more than a passing look, and the visitor will doubtless linger for a considerable time over the fine collection of drawings sent by Mr. J. F. M'Cardell. Messrs. John Anderson and Sons display a number of photographs of the huge steam cranes and boilers made at the Canterbury Foundry, together with drawings of other machinery turned out from the same establishment. Of special interest to the antiquarian should be the collection of facsimiles of famous documents, among them Magua Charta, and the warrants to execute Mary Queen of Scots and her luckless grandson, Charles I. The next case adjoining these papers is exhibited by Mr. N. Wolfe, and contains an interesting collection of engravers' appliances and workmanship. Visitors of a mechanical turn will find much to interest them in the set of standard drawings of locomotives, prepared by the Government for the guidance of the contractors for the construction of the engines, and other drawings and models exhibited by Mr. D. Blair of the School of Art.