THE LAST OF THE EXHIBITION.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 67, 21 March 1887, Page 2

THE LAST OF THE EXHIBITION.

What nas Become of the Exhibits la the New Zealand Court. Sir Walter and Lady Buller are on this Continent. They havo visited Frankfort, Cologne, and Aix-Ia Chapelle, and are now at Brussels, whence they intend to go to Paris for a woek or two. The Bullor collection has been carefully packed, and is to fee returnod to New Zealand at once, all eiJ copt tho Maori tomb, which, by the request of tho French Government has been deposited at tho Trocadoro Ethnographical Museum, where it will remain till the opening of tho Paris Exhibition of 1889. Sir F. D. Belt'a wonderful fernery in the Now Zealand Court at the Colondies has of course been broken up, although I under; stand that its principal treasures will be preserved at Chiswick till required by the Imperial Institute. Two of Sir Julius Yon HaaatV m»« haVi gone back to the Canterbury Musoumj the third was sold at a high price to one of the ! principal provincial museums. Tho British museum authorities secured nearly tho whole of Profeesor Parker's .Collection of skeletons and vertebrate animals in spirits. ."£■■» ~«s I am sorry Dr. Hector's fins topographi-■* cal model of New Zealand has gone back to the colony. It would have been acceptable to the School of Minea or some other kindred institution in tho metropolis. ~ Dr Lognn Campbell's fine section'of Uio kauri pine one of the grandest things of its kind inthe wholo Exhibition-haB,I am glad to hear, been presented to the Museum of Economic Botany, at Kensington Gardens. Profeseor Giglioli, who reported on tho Indian and Colonial Exhibition for the Gol • vernmont of Italy, in treating of the New Zealand section says :—" I consider Dr. Wi L. Bullcr'd ethnological (Maori) collection the gem of the whole Now Zealand Court"— as indeed it was.