Correspondence and papers on the work of commissions and the institution of exhibitions, including an 'Examination of Institute Classes' (a piece from the 'Journal of Society of Arts'); an education exhibition; courses by the Royal Dublin Society; Cape of Good Hope public examinations; interviews for the Public Schools Commission; preparations for the International Exhibition, 1862, and the Paris Universal Exhibition, 1867, with a layout of the exhibition; a commission on the coal industry; George Clover's Patent Dry Gas Meter, with a description, three sets of plans and an article in the 'Journal of the Society of Arts'; and a proposed exhibition. The correspondents include J. Booth, W.B. Carpenter, E.J. Routh, J.J.V. Littrow, L. Playfair, H. Cole, G. Grey, W.G. Armstrong and E. Balston.