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THE WOHLd's FAIRS 
The departments of the different nations 
were divided off by radial or transversal 
galleries intorsecting all the anuular gal- 
leries. In following ono of the radial 
galleries the visitor successively reviewed 
all the different products of the same 
country, while in passing through an an- 
nular gallery he was enabled to compare 
the same dass of goods from all countries. 
It would also liave beeil possible to make 
the anuular galleries correspond to the 
different national departments, by pro- 
portioning their size to the importance of 
the country, and then to so arrauge the 
goods, that the transversal galleries would 
always intersect the same dass of goods. 
The fadlity for comparativestudies, and 
particularly for the work of the Jury, which 
similar Systems of arrangement öfter, are 
evident, and need no coniment. They can 
of course be as easily adapted to buildings 
of angular form, as to those of circular 
form. And as the outward appearance 
can therefore be varied at will, it would 
perhaps have beeil advisable to have 
adopted such an arrangement once for all, 
at least for those classes of goods, which 
it is the object of the exhibition to bring 
into comparison. 
Perfectly compatible with such arrange 
ment of the main buildiug are separate ex-