ground, the effect being harmonious.  It was accorded the honor of obtaining one of the four grand prizes awarded in State agricultural exhibits.  Tobacco was also used as a special exhibit, and was featured by an Indian maiden standing on a pedestal 23 feet high and holding in her outstretched hand a bundle of tobacco.  A miniature log cabin advertised a special brand of tobacco.  The horticultural exhibit consisted of an open, three-towered elliptical pavilion and a horn of plenty, apparently pouring apples on a pyramid of natural fruit below.  This was made primarily an apple exhibit, more than 800 barrels being used for the purpose.  Peaches, melons, pears, cranberries, and other fruits were shown in season.

The forestry, fish, and game exhibit was displayed by the use of sectional disks and boards in the rough, dressed, and polished, and by specimens of fish in natural skins and papier-mache, illustrating the leading food fish of Virginia waters.  Mounted animals and a very complete collection of mounted water fowls and game birds were displayed.  There was also one of the largest collections of oyster models ever made, illustrating by means of composition replicas in the natural shell of all the leading types of the Virginia oyster.

Transparencies 28 by 30 were used to illustrate forest scenes, while in manufactured goods an interesting display was made.  The exhibit booth consisted of a rear facade with brown color scheme, relieved by ornamentation in shells, fish scales, and forest products, the whole forming an immense picture of Hampton Roads executed in colors.

The installation for the mines and metallurgy exhibit was mediaeval in architecture.  A castellated gateway, veneered with copper ores, gypsum, and slate was flanked by a balustrade of slate surmounted by onyx balls.  In the gateway appeared a coal exhibit, representing King Coal seated on a throne and guarded on either side by gnomes.  The windows in the rear were screened with transparencies 28 by 34, illustrating scenery of the State, while the floor space was occupied by pyramids of various ores.  The panels of the wall space were framed in coke, in which were displayed, in colors, pictures of the upper works of the mines.  Between these panels were arranged upright cases containing ores of gold, silver, lead, iron, asbestos, kaolin, mica, clays, zinc, manganese, talc, etc., while exhibits of marble, rough and sculptured, together with cubes of building stones and mineral waters were displayed.  The general color scheme was that of copper and iron pyrites.  In these four exhibits Virginia occupied a little less than 10,000 square feet of floor, and her exhibits, both by award and public opinion, were adjudged to be among the best.  An award was won by every entry made.  During the spring of 1903 the Virginia assembly appropriated $10,000 to be expended by the Commission in the erection of a State building.  This sum was augmented by private