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Among other objects in this department from private individuals 

 were a series of publications by Mr. Stewart Culin, of Philadelphia, 

 chiefly referring to Chinese and East Indian games of dice, and others 

 for the purpose of telling fortunes 5 from the University of Pennsyl 

 vania, reports relating to the Museum of American Archaeology; from 

 the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, reports of 

 its proceedings; from Prof. E. N. Horsford, of Cambridge, Mass., a 

 number of his works giving his theory of the early visits of the North 

 men to the coast of New England; a critical study by Emile Travers 

 on the disposition of the remains of Columbus; from Mr. Alfred Mauds- 

 lay, London, a collection of photographs and views of ruins and monu 

 ments discovered by him in Yucatan and Guatemala; rare maps and 

 paintings from the collection of Seiior Peliciano Herreros de Tejada, of 

 Madrid, and a series of autographs and original documents from the 

 collection of Francisco de Uhagon, of Madrid. The Eoyal Society of 

 Berlin presented a copy of the Entdeckung Amerikas by Kretschmer, 

 a large folio volume of 368 pages, issued in 1892, with au atlas of mag 

 nificent maps, intended to be commemorative of the fourth centennial 

 of the great discovery. 



An exact reproduction of the famous map of Juan de la Cosa, pilot 

 for Christopher Columbus, was exhibited by Antonio Canovas y Vallejo. 

 This celebrated document must be considered the general foundation 

 for the history of cartography of the Western Hemisphere, and its repro 

 duction in its present accurate form must be welcome to all scholars. 



A noteworthy department of the Exposition was that occupied by the 

 manuscripts and historical documents and rare printed books from the 

 various depositories in Spain. The many sources from which these 

 were supplied were, first, the archives of the Indies in Seville, in Alcala 

 de Henares, in Simancas, and the national archives in Madrid. Others 

 were derived from the rich library of the Royal Academy of History of 

 Spain, the Provincial Library of Toledo, the National Library, the 

 Royal Academy of Fine Arts, and from a limited number of private col 

 lections. It would be of considerable advantage to give a notice and 

 catalogue of all these which bear upon the study of the history and 

 conditions of the native Indian tribes and on the history of the United 

 States. 



One of the leading topics on which collections were displayed was 

 the life and achievements of Christopher Columbus. These were drawn 

 chiefly from the archives of the Indies, in Simancas, and in Seville. 

 Among them may be mentioned the accounts of the treasurer of Seville, 

 who paid over moneys to Columbus in the year 1487 ; the instruction 

 and letters of the King and Queen to him at various times; the docu 

 ments conferring upon him the title of admiral of the Indies; the privi 

 lege signed by the King and Queen in 1497 confirming the grants made 

 to him in consequence of his discoveries; orders to pay over to him 

 moneys at various times for the prosecution of his discoveries; a sketch 



