1. For information about major nineteenth-century exhibitions see, John E. Findling and Kimberly D. Pelle (eds) Encyclopedia of World’s Fairs and Expositions, 2nd edition (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2008); John Allwood, The Great Exhibitions (London: Studio Vista, 1977); Paul Greenhalgh, Ephemeral Vistas: The Exposition Universelles, Great Exhibitions, and World’s Fairs, 1851–1939 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988); Robert Rydell, All the World’s A Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876–1916 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987); Robert Rydell (ed.) The Books of the Fairs: Materials About World’s Fairs, 1834–1916, in the Smithsonian Institution Libraries (Chicago: American Library Association, 1992), pp. 1–62.
2. French organizers employed a rather straightforward system to sort such exhibits according to basic scientific categories: ‘Chemistry’, ‘Mechanical Engineering’, and ‘Health’. See, John Allwood, ‘General Notes: International Exhibitions and the Classification of their Exhibits’, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts 128 (1980), 450–1; Richard D. Mandell, Paris 1900: The Great World’s Fair (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1967), pp. 3–14. The scientific displays at the Great Exhibition are discussed in Jim Bennett, Science at the Exhibition (Cambridge: The Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 1983); Richard Bellow, ‘Science at the Crystal Focus of the World’, in Aileen Fyfre and Bernard Lightman (eds) Science in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007), pp. 301–35.
3. ‘The Museum and Library Report’, The School of Mines, Ballarat, Annual Report Presented at the Meeting of Governors, held January 24, 1882 (Ballarat: Charles Boyd, 1882), pp. 22–7.
4. Exhibition, Melbourne, 1854–Paris, 1855. Special Instructions for the Guidance of Local Committees and Intending Exhibitors (Melbourne: Office of the Commission, 1854), pp. 10–16.
5. Catalogue of the Natural and Industrial Products of New South Wales Exhibited in the Australian Museum by the Paris Commissioners, Sydney, November 1854 (Sydney: Reading and Wellbank, 1854), pp. 41–70.