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merit, she received fifteen; being in all twenty-eight medals, as compared with seventy-eight received by the New York exhibitors, twenty-eight by those from Ohio, and seventeen by those from Pennsylvania. Four diplomas of honor were, however, awarded to individual American expositors, two of whom were from Pennsylvania, and one each from Rhode Island and from New York. The four individuals thus distinguished were, Messrs. Sellers, for machine tools, Corliss, for his steam-engine, White for dentistry, and Wood for the invention of the mowing-machine. It will be noticed that every state in the Union was represented by expositors, though no less than thirteen states numbered three or less. America was not, however, represented in all the groups. Nothing was contributed to Group XIX., which related to the arrangement and interior decoration of the private dwelling-house; or to Group XXII., which was devoted to showing the influence of museums of fine arts on industry ; or to Group XXIV., which was made up of objects of fine arts of the past, exhibited by their owners. In Group XXV., in which were included the fine arts of the present time, produced since 1862, the American exposition was wretchedly and disgracefully inadequate. In Group XX., being the farm-house, its arrangements, furniture and utensils, Mr. F. H. Appleton, of West Peabody, furnished the solitary contribution, a modest plan of the farm owned and cultivated by him. In Group XXI., of national domestic industry, which included the superb potteries, porcelains, tapestries, laces, metal articles and carved work, which were the brilliant feature of the Exposition, the only American contributors were two young ladies, respectively from New York and Michigan, who sent, the one an "Embroidered Picture,” and the other a "Phantom Bouquet.” In Group XXIII., relating to art applied to religion, and which included the entire ornamentation of all sacred edifices, the American contributions were two in number, and both from New York, the one being a " Bronze Lectern,” and the other a n improved "Burial Casket.”
Turning from the American department to the Exposition as a whole, the general field was as rich in material for special reports of value as the particular field was barren. A very cursory examination, however, of most of the col-