BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 291 



153 THAIVKS OF THE EXECITTIVE COMJUITTEE OF THE I.OIVDOIV 



irVTERNAIIOIVAL FISHEKIES EXHIBITION FOR THE PARTICIPA- 

 TIOIV BV THE UNITED STATE.**. 



By JAMES RUSSELL EOWEEE. 



[Dispatch No. 666, to Hon. F. T. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State.] 



I take great pleasure in transmitting herewith a copy of a letter ad- 

 dressed to me by the chairman of the executive committee of the great 

 International Fisheries Exhibition, London, 1883, requesting me to 

 convey to the Government of the United States the special expression 

 by His Koyal Highness the Prince of Wales, by the president, and the 

 members of the executive committee, of their gratitude for the admira- 

 ble manner in which our Government has so effectively and generously 

 responded to the appeal for co-operation in the past exhibition. 



I am also requested to bring to the notice of the Government of the 

 United States the valuable services of Professor Goode and other gen- 

 tlemen in organizing the American section of the exhibition and in the 

 jury department. 



Legation of the United States, 



London, Novemher 19, 1883. 



letter from MR. EDWARD BIRKBECK, CHAIRMAN, TO MR. LOWELL, 



NOVEMBER 16, 1883. 



I am desired by His Koyal Highness the Prince of Wales, the presi- 

 dent, and by the members of the executive committee of the Interna- 

 tional Fisheries Exhibition to request your excellency to convey to the 

 Government of the United States the special expression of their grati- 

 tude for the admirable manner in which the Government of the United 

 States has so effectively and generously responded to the appeal for 

 co-operation in the past exhibition. 



It has been a matter generally acknowledged by all classes of the 

 community that it was impossible to conceive a better interpretation 

 of the wishes of the promoters of this exhibition than that so method- 

 ically and so ably rendered by the learned and experienced staff of 

 gentlemen who were charged by Prof. Spencer F. Baird to give the 

 benefit of their experience and advice to us. The rapid organization 

 and the specially successful arrangement and decoration of the United 

 States court have been the theme and the general admiration of the 

 public, and I trust that we may be allowed to request you to bring 

 under the notice of your Government the eminent services of the 

 learned Prof. G. Brown Goode, who has so worthily and actively repre- 

 sented the Commission of Fish and Fisheries. His services have not 

 only been of an administrative character, but the active part which he 



