REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 89 



sitiou, ill which his departiiieut was so extensively cuueeiued. being 

 unable to leave Washington. 



The Department of State and the Biirean of American Ke[)ul)lics 

 sent the extensive collection of portraits of Colninbns, and of monu- 

 ments and historic localities connected with the discovery of America, 

 which had been prepared by Mr. William Eleroy Curtis, Chief of the 

 Bureau; and Mr. Curtis, m person, superintended the installation of 

 this exhibit while serving as special envoy of the Government to 

 invite the attendance of a representative of the royal family and the 

 Duke of Veragua, Columbus' lineal descendant and representative, to 

 attend the World's Columbian Exposition. 



Mr. Stewart Culiu, curator of the museum of arclueology and paleon- 

 tology of the University of Pennsylvania, was detailed by the univer- 

 sity to represent the institution u])on that occasion, and to install a 

 large collection of archa'ological objects from its musenm. 



Mr. J. Walter Fewkes, director of the Hemenway Expedition, by 

 which an extensive disi>lay of ethnological objects from the Southwest 

 was exhibited, also accompanied the commissioner to Madrid and 

 remained during the entire period, in company with his assistant, Mr. 

 J. S. Owen. 



Mr. Stewart Culm was appointed secretary of tlie commission ; Lieut. 

 J. C. Colwell, U. S. Navy, was detailed by the Navy Department as 

 disbursing officer, and 3Ir. Henry Horan, of the National Museum, 

 was sent to attend to the unpacking and the mechanical work of 

 mounting the exhibits in Madrid. 



The writer sailed for Southampton August 4, accompanied by Dr. 

 Hough and Mr. Culin, and arrived in Madrid August 19, remaining 

 until the exhibits had arrived and the work of installation well begun. 

 In the meantime, the opening of theexhibition having been deferred until 

 October 30 and his share of the work having been practically accom 

 plished, except what could be done even more satisfactorily by other 

 officers of the Museum already in Madrid, he left Madrid for Washington 

 September 17. Dr. Wilson was recalled, by reason of family troubles, 

 November 3. Dr. Hough remained until the close of tlie exhibition, 

 February 4, and superintended the packing and return (tf the exhibits, 

 the last of which reached Washington in April, in time, as had been 

 antici])ated, for use m Chicago. 



It should be said that a large part of the exhibits sent from the 

 National Museum to Madrid were selected from those already mounted 

 for display at the World's Fair, and that cases were sent from Wash- 

 ington for the accommodation of all tlie exhibits sent from the United 

 States, which occupied a Moor space of 10,000 square feet. It was 

 found, however, tliat the Spanish Cxovernment had provided a certain 

 number of cases admirably suited for exhibition — an entirely unprece- 

 dented act of forethought and liberality in exhibition management — 

 and it was consequently found unnecessary to unpack all the cases 

 which had been provided. 



