CONTENTS.

	PAGE
CHAPTER I.
Introduction	1
CHAPTER II.
Error Respecting the Interchange of Commodities	7
CHAPTER III.
Of Societies	12
CHAPTER IV.
Origin of the Exposition of 1851	26
CHAPTER V.
Object and Use of the Exposition	42
CHAPTER VI.
Limits	48
CHAPTER VII.
Site and Construction of Building	55
CHAPTER VIII.
Prices	64
CHAPTER IX.
Prizes	99
CHAPTER X.
Juries, etc.	112
CHAPTER XI.
Ulterior Objects	125
CHAPTER XII.
Intrigues of Science	149
CHAPTER XIII.
Calculating Engines	173
CHAPTER XIV.
Position of Science	189
CHAPTER XV.
The Press	202
CHAPTER XVI.
Party	209
CHAPTER XVII.
Rewards of Merit	220
APPENDIX.
The Eleventh Chapter of Mr. Weld’s History of the Royal Society	251