Reports by the juries. Class IV. Animal and vegetable substances chiefly used in manufactures, as implements, or for ornaments / Richard Owen, Edward Solly, reporters.

  • Owen, Richard, Sir, 1804-1892.
Date:
[1851]
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Credit: Reports by the juries. Class IV. Animal and vegetable substances chiefly used in manufactures, as implements, or for ornaments / Richard Owen, Edward Solly, reporters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    taken singly or in groups, are of importance, either from their novelty, their superior excellence, or the locality from which they are sent; the Jury con- sidered it most advisable to treat each of these collections as a whole or unit, and they accordmgly awarded Prize Medals for the following collections respectively:— To Hon. Lieut.-Colonel Butterworth, Governor of Prince of Wales Island and Singapore, for a collection of raw produce from Singapore and the Straits. To Major F. Jejtkin’S, Chairman of the Assam Committee, for the collection of the raw produce of Assam. To the Agricultural Society of the Cape of Good Hope, for the collection of the raw produce of that country. To the President of the Montreal Committee (Canada, 80), for the collection of the timber and other woods of Canada. To the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana, for the collection of the raw produce of that colony. To His Excellency Lord Harris, Governor of Trinidad, for the collection of the raw produce of Trinidad. To His Excellency Sir W. T. Denison, Governor of Van Diemen’s Land, for the collection of the raw produce of that colony. To Messrs. W. P. Hammond and Co., for a collection of the raw produce of Siam and the Indian Archipelago, including fine specimens of caoutchouc, gutta percha, gamboge, gums and resins, terra japonica, shells, ivory, isinglass, &c. To the Colonization Assurance Corporation, per W. B. P. Wood, for a collection of the raw produce of Western Austraha. To SiDl Mahmoud Benyad of Tunis, Commissioner for the Government of Tunis, for a collection of the raw produce of that country. To Abdul Hamid of Alexandria, Commissioner for the Government of Egypt, for a collection of the raw produce of that country. To the President of the Maryland Committee (United States, 371), for a collection of specimens of the principal raw produce of that state. To the Agricultural Board of Valencia, for the collection of raw pro- duce. To the Agricultural Board of Saragossa (Spain, 94), for the collection of raw produce. To Sir Robert Schomburgk, H.M. Consul to the Dominican Republic, for specimens of the raw produce of that republic. To the Royal Technological Institute of Tuscany, for the collection of the raw produce of that country.