S, metals, coal, and in fact, all mineral substances
employe d in the useful arts, as well as what pertains to mining, quarrying,
and smelting. 2. _Organic Materials_--embracing whatever is practically interesting in all vegetable and animal substances used in manufacturing, having in view their sources, culture,
collection, commercial importance and qualities as connected
with manufacturing. This department presents a vast field of immense importance to every merchant and importer of raw material. 3. _On Tools and Instruments_--devoted
to all the implements and apparatus needed in all processes of manufacture. 4. _On Machinery and Motive Powers._ 5. _On Textile
Manufactures._ 6. _On Manufactures of Wood, Leather, Paper, India-Rubber, etc._ 7. _On Pottery, Glass, and Precious Metals._ 8. _On Chemical Products and Processes._
9. _On Household Economy._ This
department would embrace attention to whatever relates to warming, illumination,
water-supply, ventilation, and
the preparation and preservation of food, as well
as the protection of the public health. 10. _On Engineering and Architecture._
11. _On Commerce, Navigation, and Inland Transport._ This department alone, developed
in detail, and on the scale proposed, would
of itself amply repay any amount of encouragement and investment. To collect and classify for the use of the public all available information on the
subject of shipping, the
improvement of harbors, the construction of docks, the
location and efficiency of railroads, and other channels of inland intercourse