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coal, the latter reprinted from a report by 

 Robert Giifen to the British House of Com- 



The Report of the United States Commis- 

 sion to the Columbian Historical Exposition 

 at Madrid comprises a brief account of the 

 participation of the United States in the 

 Exposition, by Rear- Admiral Luce, who was 

 the commissioner-general for this counti-y; a 

 report by Dr. Daniel G. Brinton on the col- 

 lections exhibited; catalogues of the anthro- 

 pological, numismatic, historical, and other 

 objects sent by various institutions and gov- 



ernment departments of the United States ; 

 and descriptive essays on several classes of 

 these objects. Mr. William E. Curtis fur- 

 nishes a report on the historical part of the 

 exhibit, which included seventy-seven por- 

 traits of Columbus, only one of which was 

 made during his life, and a considerable 

 number of pictures representing places iden- 

 tified with the life history of Columbus, or 

 the remains of Spanish occupation in the 

 United States, or subjects connected with the 

 oi-igin of the name America. Many of the 

 portraits are reproduced, and other jDaits of 

 the volume are fully illustrated. 



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