ABSTRACT
The culture of science is itself a high test of civilization, and the people are irresistibly led to think highly of a state of society, remarkable, like the present, for its persevering attempts to cultivate science, with direct relation to the everyday necessities of life, its stores being daily ransacked to contribute to the meanest comforts of life, and to forward to perfection instruments, to assist in laying up theories for future use. The gratitude of all interested in the Exhibition, next to its illustrious designer, is due especially to those promoters of the undertaking, – The Executive Committee, who invested talent, time, and income, in its management and success, and to whom is due much of the good arising from its excellent management; for the Exhibition, when erected and furnished with its varied contents, stood but a vast engine, to be wielded either to the public advantage or disadvantage.
