Excerpt from Reports and Awards of the Jurors: And Appendix Mr. William Sun was employed by the Commissioners as their Chemical Analyst, under the direction Of db. Hector, and the results of his investigations will be found embodied in the very instructive Supple mentary Report on Class I. In Appendix A. In some Classes it was deemed advisable to employ a Reporter, and Ms. W. H. Harrison's name, at his request, is appended to those on which he was engaged, but it' is to be regretted that the corrections which were necessary in these reports have been the cause of much editorial labor and very considerable delay in publication. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.