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examined and reported on for the good of the community. It is not intended by this to come in between the importer and his profits, but only to supplement his ignorance or neglect of the value of what he has imported. But whatever may be thought of this proposition, none will probably deny that it would be of signal service to the mercantile public, to be assured that whatever raw materials their correspondents or agents sent home, would be examined, if desired, by skilled adepts, and their commercial value proximately determined. If you only call to remembrance the immense stimulus which commercial enterprise has received within but twenty years, from the discovery abroad of gutta percha, guano, gold, and nitrate of soda, besides many other bodies less familiar to the general public—you will perceive how essential it is that every possible workable material should be collected abroad, and carefully examined at home.
III. Thirdly; Commercial enterprise is as much interested in sending finished products to a distance, as in bringing raw materials to its own door. Perfected results, accordingly, of Industrial Art, are as much the concern of an Industrial Museum, as the raw materials from which they are elaborated;
AND COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE.
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and so also are the machines and tools needed for their elaboration, and in effecting the useful application of the elaborated products.
A large portion, therefore, of the Exhibitional galleries of the Museum must be assigned—
1. To such finished products as wrought iron, steel, glass, porcelain, paper, leather, cotton, linen, woollen and silken tissues, naphtha, sugar, sulphuric acid, soap, bleaching powder, lucifer matches, and the like.
2. To all the intermediate products which intervene between such products and their raw materials; for example, between iron-ore and steel; between sand and glass; between clay and porcelain; between rags and paper; between skins and leather; between cotton-wool, flax-fibre, merino-fleece, and cocoon-floss on the one hand, and chintz, linen-damask, broadcloth, tartan, carpeting, and satin or velvet on the other; between coals and naphtha; cane-juice and loaf-sugar; sulphur and oil of vitriol; palm-oil and soap; common salt and bleaching powder; burned bones and lucifer matches.
3. To the tools, machines, and apparatus required for the conversion of raw materials into finished products, such as agricultural, mining, and paper-making machinery, furnaces, mills, lathes, moulds, looms, gas-retorts, stills, printing presses and the other engines of the graphic arts,
$148
THE INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM
examined and reported on for the good of the com- munity. It is not intended by this to come in between the importer and his profits, but only to supplement his ignorance or neglect of the value of what he has imported. But whatever may be thought of this proposition, none will probably deny that it would be of signal service to the mercantile public, to be assured that whatever raw materials their correspondents or agents sent home, would be examined, if desired, by skilled adepts, and their com- mercial value proximately determined. If you only call to remembrance the immense stimulus which commercial enterprise has received within but twenty years, from the discovery abroad of gutta percha, guano, gold, and nitrate of soda, besides many other bodies less familiar to the general public--you will per- ceive how essential it is that every possible work- able material should be collected abroad, and carefully examined at home.
The
III. Thirdly; Commercial enterprise is as much interested in sending finished products to a distance, as in bringing raw materials to its own door. perfected results, accordingly, of Industrial Art, are as much the concern of an Industrial Museum, as the raw materials from which they are elaborated;
AND COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE.
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and so also are the machines and tools needed for their elaboration, and in effecting the useful applica- tion of the elaborated products.
A large portion, therefore, of the Exhibitional galleries of the Museum must be assigned-1. To such finished products as wrought iron, steel, glass, porcelain, paper, leather, cotton, linen, woollen and silken tissues, naphtha, sugar, sulphuric acid, soap, bleaching powder, lucifer matches, and the like. 2. To all the intermediate products which intervene between such products and their raw materials; for example, between iron-ore and steel; between sand and glass; between clay and porcelain; between rags and paper; between skins and leather; between cotton-wool, flax-fibre, merino-fleece, and cocoon-floss on the one hand, and chintz, linen-damask, broad- cloth, tartan, carpeting, and satin or velvet on the other; between coals and naphtha; cane-juice and loaf-sugar; sulphur and oil of vitriol; palm-oil and soap; common salt and bleaching powder; burned bones and lucifer matches. 3. To the tools, machines, and apparatus required for the conversion of raw materials into finished products, such as agricultural, mining, and paper-making machinery, furnaces, mills, lathes, moulds, looms, gas-retorts, stills, printing presses and the other engines of the graphic arts,
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