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to the provinces and cities desiring it, and above all to such as possess the clearest 

 titles as prominent actors in the centenary celebration. Granada, Santa F^, Valla- 

 dolid, Barcelona, Sevilla and certain places in Hnelva, all of which are doubtless 

 included in the number, will to the best of their respective abilities join with Madrid 

 in tiiis laudable and patriotic manifestation. But it is impossible not to recognize 

 that Hnelva, with its never-to-be-forgotten thoughmodestmonastery of Santa Maria 

 de la Rabida, and its neighboring coast, rather than port, of Palos de Mogiier, where 

 Columbus found asylum, resources and men to second and accompany him, and from 

 which sailed the ships that first reached the New World, deserves on the part of the 

 Government particular attention. It has been arranged that that place and that 

 arm of the sea will be traverseil, during the first days of the centenary celebration, 

 by the members of the congress of Americanists who will celebrate in Huelva their 

 ninth anniversary. 



On the other hand, the committee appointed under the second of the decrees of 

 1888, so frequently cited, had already thought of commencing operations in those 

 famous places on the occasion of the centenary. It is now the part of the Govern- 

 ment to see that those intentions are extended and fulfilled. And when all the 

 foregoing shall have been well considered, it will be clearly seen that there remains 

 so much to be done to carry out the intentions of the former and of the present 

 ministry, that assiduous and active work will be needed so as to combine all the 

 elements into a useful and complete entirety. This is the object to be attained by 

 the committee of direction which, in virtue of this decree, is to be appointed. In 

 particular the ministers, who form an important part of the committee, from hence- 

 forward have no time to lose, knowing that, of necessity, they will have a most diffi- 

 cult and complicated part to perform. In these special duties the whole ministry 

 will assist, whenever necessary, without extravagant expectations but without dis- 

 couragement, should your majesty give your approval to the accompanying project 

 of the royal decree. 



Madrid, January 9, 1891. 



Senora : A. L. R. P. de V. M., 



AxTOXio Canovas del Castillo. 



No. 4. 



CLASSIFICATION FOR THE HISTORIC AMERICAN EXPOSITION, MADRID, 



1892. 



I. — Pre-Columbian Period. 

 FIRST t;i:oi I'. 



Caverns. — Models, reproductions, plans, drawings, etc., of ancient American caves 

 which may show indications of having served as habitations of Man. 



Monuments, etc. — Models, reproductions, plans, drawings, etc., of the prehistoric 

 monuments of America, from the menhir, to the dolmens, tumuli, and other 

 megalithic monuments. 



Lake-dwellers. — Models, reproductions, etc., of remains of lacustrine dwellings. (The 

 representations of prehistoric monuments should be accompanied by the objects 

 found in or near them or by reproductions.) 



Prehistoric arts, etc. — Faleolithic and neolithic periods. — Arms and instruments of 

 stone; instruments of horn and bone; ceramics; adornments and utensils of 

 bone, ivory, marble, wood, stone, or any other substance; objects carved or 

 engraved with stone instruments; stone hammers and mortars; fossils or bones 

 of animals which serve to verify archa'ological discoveries; copper and bronze 

 objects; objects belonging to other sciences, such as geology and paleontology, 

 which may serve to throw light upon the so-called prehistoric age of America. 



