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THE Committee of Administration of the Paris International Exhibition of 1900 have adopted a scheme of arrangement of the exhibits according to the nature of the objects, instead of by nationalities. The exhibits will be arranged in groups, containing between them 120 classes. The subjects of the groups are: education and teaching, literature, science and art, instruments and processes; machinery and mechanical processes; civil engineering, construction, means of transport; agriculture, horticulture, arboriculture, forestry, sport, &c.; alimentary products; mines and metallurgy; decoration and furniture of public and private buildings; yarns, fabrics, clothing; industrial chemistry; miscellaneous industries; social economy, hygiene, public charities; colonisation; naval and military.

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Notes. Nature 57, 611–617 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/057611a0

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