REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 7 



REPRESENTATION OF THE UNITED STATES AT THE MADRID EXPOSI- 

 TION. 



In accordance witl) an act <>t Congress, approved May 13, 18!>2, the 

 President appointed a commission to represent the United States at the 

 Columbian Historical Exposition to be held in Madrid in L892, in com 

 memoration of the fourth centenary of the discovery of America. The 

 commission consisted of Rear-Admiral S. B.Luce, II. S. Navy, commis- 

 sioner-general; Dr. James C. Welling, president of the Columbian Uni- 

 versity, Washington, and Dr. G. Brown Goode, Assistant Secretary of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, commissioners. 



The act of Congress authorizing the participation of the Tinted 

 States in the Madrid Exposition reads as follows: 



For the expense of representation of the United States at the Columbian Historical 

 Exposition to be held in Madrid in eighteen hundred and ninety-two in commemora- 

 tion of the fonr-hmidredth anniversary of the discovery of America., fifteen thousand 

 dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction 

 and in the discretion of the .Secretary ot State; and the President is hereby author- 

 ized to appoint a commissioner-general and two assistant commissioners, who may, 

 in his discretion, be selected from the active or retired list of the Army or Navy, and 

 shall serve without other compensation than that to which they are now entitled by 

 law, to represent the United States at said exposition; that it shall be the duty of 

 such commissioners to select from the archives of the United States, from the National 

 Museum, and from the various Executive Departments of the Government such 

 pictures, books, papers, documents, and other articles as may relate to the discovery 

 and early settlement of America and the aboriginal inhabitants thereof ; and they 

 shall be authorized to secure the loan of similar articles from other museums and 

 private collections, and arrange, classify, and install them as the exhibit of the United 

 States at the said exposition; that the President is authorized to cause the detail of 

 officers from the active or retired list of the. Army or Navy to serve without compen- 

 sation other than that to which they are now entitled by law, as assistants to said 

 commissioners; and the said commissioners shall lie authorized to employ such cleri- 

 cal and other assistance as may be necessary, subject to the approval of the Secretary 

 of State. 



NECROLOGY". 



Prof. H. X. Moseley, of Oxford, England, a highly valued correspond- 

 ent of and contributor to the National Museum, died on November 10. 

 1891. 



Prof. Sereno Watson, curator of the herbarium of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, died March 9, 1892. Prof. Watson was recognized as one of the 

 foremost botanists of the world, and was for many years a correspondent 

 of the Museum. 



Another valued correspondent, Gen. Mariano Jimenez, governor of 

 the State of Michoacan, Mexico, and founder of the museums of 

 Oaxaca and Michoacan, died February 28, 1892. 



