Exhibition Classified Lists




(B.)—VEGETABLE KINGDOM—continued.

VIII. Gum Series:
Resins and Balsams.
IX. Resin Series:
Gum Resins.
Gum Elastic.
X. Oil Series:
Volatile Oils.
Drying Fat Oils.
Non-Drying Fat Oils.
Solid Oils.
Wax.

XI. Acids.
XII. Dyes and Colours.
XIII. Tanning Substances.
XIV. Intoxicating Drugs.
XV. Medicinal Substances.

  1. MATERIALS USED CHIEFLY IN THE CHEMICAL ARTS, OR IN MEDICINE...

XVI. Fibrous Substances—Cordage and Clothing Materials.
XVII. Cellular Substances.
XVIII. Timber and Fancy Woods, for construction and ornament; and prepared by Dyeing, &c.

  1. MISCELLANEOUS SUBSTANCES...
    XIX. Miscellaneous Substances not elsewhere enumerated.

*More detailed lists of this division will be published.


(C.)—ANIMAL KINGDOM.

Almost every part of almost every species of Animal serves as Food to some variety or other of the Human Race. Preparations of Food as examples of Industrial Products, for the Exhibition, would comprise,

  1. SUBSTANCES USED AS FOOD...
    Specimens of Preserved Meats; for long voyages; Portable Soups;
    Concentrated Nutriments; Consolidated Milk, &c.; Dried Gelatine,
    Isinglass, and Albumen; Caviaré; Trepang; Sharks’ Fins; Nests of
    the Java Swallow; and the like Articles of Eastern Commerce;
    Honey and its Preparations.

    Cod Liver and other animal Oils, for internal or external application.
    Unguents of Spermaceti, Lard, Oil, and combinations of these.
    Musk, Castoreum; Civet, Ambergis (as Antispasmodics).

  2. SUBSTANCES USED FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES...
    Phosphorus and Ammonia (from Bones; Hartshorn; Urine).
    Crabs’ Eyes, or the Calcareous Concretions formed in the Craw Fish;
    Cuttle Bone, powdered shellfish.
    Cantharides, and their essence Cantharadine.
    Iodine (obtained from Marine Zoophytes and Sponge).

  3. FOR TEXTILES FABRICS AND FOR CLOTHING.
    Wool, Hair; Hair Bands; and Robes; Bristles; Whalebones.
    Silk from the Silkworm; Bombyx Mori, and from other species in India,
    e.g., Bombycilla Cynthia and Attacus Paphia.
    Feathers: Down, Fur.
    Skins, Hides, Leather.
    Elytra or Beetle Wings (for Ornaments of Dress).
    Byssus, from the Pinna Shell Fish (manufactured into Gloves).

  4. SUBSTANCES USED IN MANUFACTURES.
    b. FOR DOMESTIC OR ORNAMENTAL PURPOSES, OR FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF IMPLEMENTS.
    Bone, Horn, Hoofs, Ivory, Tortoise-shell, Shagreen, Parchment, Vellum;
    Quills.
    Pearls (Meleagrina margaritifera; Unio margaritifera); Seed Pearl (Mytilus edulis).
    Coral.
    Oils, Tallow, Spermaceti, Wax, Lard.
    Silkworm Gut.
    Mothers of Pearl (Shells of Meleagrina, Haliotis, and Turbo); Buffalo Shells.
    Shells, Bombay Shells, Black Shells, White-edge Shells, Yellow-edge Shells,
    Flat Shells, Green Snail Shells.
    Sponge, Goldbeaters’ Skin, Catgut, Bladders.

    c. AS AGENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF VARIOUS ARTICLES.
    Glue, Isinglass, Gelatine.
    Bone Black, Ivory Black, Animal Charcoal.



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