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However large the Building may be,—the quantity of articles sent for Exhibition may exceed any amount of space that can be provided; Her Majesty’s Commissioners consequently reserve to themselves ample powers of rejection and selection. Upon the amount subscribed must necessarily depend the space which they may be enabled to allot; but under all circumstances they will have to exercise a certain discretion.

Her Majesty’s Commissioners also desire that the Local Committees will, as early as possible, procure an inventory or general specification of articles proposed to be exhibited from their Districts, and of the space which will be required for their exhibition, in order to enable the Commissioners to determine as soon as possible the extent and the proportions of the building.

Her Majesty’s Commissioners are in communication with the Foreign Office concerning the means of informing Foreign Governments of the arrangements making for the Exhibition.

Her Majesty’s Commissioners are considering the principles upon which the Prize Fund of £20,000 shall be appropriated, and the best mode of adjudication...

If there be any points upon which Local Committees may require information, and will address themselves to the Secretaries of the Commission, Her Majesty’s Commissioners will be happy to afford it to them, so far as it may be in their power.

(Signed)
J. SCOTT RUSSELL.
STAFFORD H. NORTHCOTE.
At the New Palace of Westminster,
21st of February, 1850.

CLASSIFIED LISTS OF OBJECTS which may be admitted to the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, to be opened in London, 1st May, 1851.

Section I. Raw Materials and Produce,—illustrative of the natural productions on which human industry is employed:

Section II. Machinery for Agricultural, Manufacturing, Engineering, and other purposes, and Mechanical Inventions,—illustrative of the agents which human ingenuity brings to bear upon the products of nature.

Section III. Manufactures,—illustrative of the result produced by the operation of human industry upon natural produce.

Section IV. Sculpture, Models and the Plastic Art generally,—illustrative of the taste and skill displayed in such applications of human industry.

This Division of the Objects for exhibition into Four Sections will be generally preserved. Articles belonging to one Section may however be admitted to another, where they may be considered necessary—but in such cases for illustration only.

SECTION I.

RAW MATERIALS AND PRODUCE.

Under Raw Materials in this Section are to be included all products of the Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal Kingdoms, either in an entirely Raw State, or in any Stage of Preparation previous to arriving at the state of a Finished Manufacture (as in Section III). They are classified according to their uses to man, in their original state and in their Chemical and Mechanical transformations.

(A.)—MINERAL KINGDOM.

(a.) ORES, AND MODES OF DRESSING.

Native Metals, or Metallic Ores,—the Modes of Dressing, such as crushing, stamping, jigging, buddling, or otherwise rendering them Merchantable: as in the cases of Antimony, Arsenic, Bismuth, Cadmium, Cobalt, Copper, Gold, Iron, Lead, Mercury, Nickel, Palladium, Platinum, Silver, Tin, Zinc, &c. &c.

(b.) METALLURGICAL PROCESSES.

The Various Methods of Roasting and Smelting the Ores, so as to illustrate Processes. Fluxes, Slags, and other Materials which may serve the purposes of illustration. The various Processes used in adapting Metals for particular purposes, as for making Iron into Cast-iron,

1. Used in Metal-
   lac Manufactures

Malleable Iron and Steel, &c. &c.

(e.) ALLOYS.

Bronzes of various kinds, such as Statuary, Gun, Bell, and Speculum Metal, Britannia Metal, Brass of different kinds, German Silver, Argentine and other varieties of White Metal, Pewter, Type Metals, Sheathing Metal, Compounds of Metals with Phosphorus and other Non-metallic bodies, &c. &c.

(d.) METALS IN PROCESS OF ADAPTATION TO FINISHED MANUFACTURES.

Rolled and Drawn in Sheets, Wires, &c., and Cast in Pigs, Bars, &c., Plated and Electrotyped Metals, &c.