Questions on entering each Gallery.

What is the Situation of the Country represented? What is its size, and its population?

Does this Gallery represent a Colony? If so, I shall look for evidence of the energy and enterprise of the British race. If it be an old colony like Canada, I shall expect to find it has made progress in manufactures. If it be a young colony like Queensland, the natural productions of the country will form its chief exhibits.

Does this Gallery represent Dependencies such as the Straits Settlements? Then evidence of native industry, unaided by machinery, and productions natural to the country, will be shown.

What are the Mineral Resources? Are there any Coal and Iron, the minerals which have been some of the sources of Great Britain's wealth?

What is the Climate of the country represented—tropical, semi-tropical, or temperate? How will its exhibits represent the climate?

What will the Models and Groups teach me respecting the people and their homes, the birds, the beasts, and the fishes?

What impression will the Photographs and Paintings give me of the character of the country and its scenery?

What people are, and what they do, is greatly influenced by the character of the country in which they dwell.

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Excellent Maps abound in the Exhibition, and should be examined on entering the Courts. Care is needed in determining Size or Distance by Map Measurements.