cluse of Science. Still, Science is not forgotten, for among the varied specimens which Col. Gourdeau and Prof. Halkett have collected and arranged are to be found many that can pour into the ear of Research a tale well worth the hearing.

In general, the collection embraces specimens of representative fish, birds, mammals and shells. The fish are both marine and salt water, large and small, eatable and man-eating. They have

halibut and other flat fishes, bass of various variety, cusk, perch, sturgeon, wolf-fish, doré, paddle-fish, gar-pike, dog-fish, cat-fish, chimæra, shark, mackerel, tunny and others.

Among the birds perhaps the most notable feature is an especially fine collection of wild ducks, geese, swan and other water-fowl. No better idea could be conveyed of this great variety of small game in Canada than is afforded by this collection. There are also in

respect to the smaller game, it comprises moose, cariboo, red deer, wolves, foxes and others. There are also several small mounted mammals, principally from the Province of of Quebec collection, such as beavers, wolverines, lynxes, otters and skunks. Among the mounted mammals' heads are specimens of buffalos,

musk ox, moose, red deer, black-tail deer, antelope, Rocky Mountain sheep and others. A particularly fine specimen of a large moose stands facing the door at the northern entrance to the pavilion, and attracts the attention of every visitor to this section. It is exhibited by Hon. F. G. Dechene, Commissioner of Agriculture for Quebec.

All in all, the Natural History exhibit of Canada at Paris is an excellent one, and to such an extent has it aroused the interest

of continental tourists and sportsmen in the natural attractions of its forests and streams of the Dominion, that no fewer than a round half-dozen parties of Parisians have been projected to visit Canada during the coming autumn.

On the same floor with the Natural History exhibit, but occupy ing the lower portion of the pavilion, is the display of Canadian food products, which embraces every thing from canned meats, fruits and prepared cereals to wines, beer, spirits and candies. It is a wide range of articles, but the wants of man are many and his foods various. This department, which has been the special care of Prof. Robertson, is under the charge at Paris of W. A. MacKinnon, of Toronto, assisted by R. P. Small, of Dunham, Que. It is one of the most interesting of all the exhibits, and is constantly receiving the attention of visitors to the pavilion. The display of apples

and other fresh fruits in a large cold-storage case near the centre of the section is a special feature of attraction, for few Europeans have ever seen such large and luscious apples as tempt the appetite from the shelves and boxes arranged within it. These and the equally tempting rows of fresh Canadian maple sugar, the glass cylinders of maple