xvi INTRODUCTION. 



AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. 



The Minister of Public Instruction has appointed Sectionschef Fidler to 

 organize the contributions from these countries. 



SPAIN. 



No Committee has been formed, but the Government has promised to 

 contribute, and Sefior Riano has been specially appointed to make the neces- 

 sary arrangements. 



UNITED STATES. 



The Government has, through Mr. Fish, replied that it is in communication 

 with the various Departments and Scientific Institutions with the object of for- 

 warding the Exhibition. 



When men of this position in all branches of Science have 

 given their adhesion to the programme of such an exhibition, its 

 success might well be considered as secured. But these gentle- 

 men did not rest satisfied with merely giving their names in 

 recognition of its value : they have spared no time and labour in 

 making the undertaking a real success. And the Lords of the 

 Committee of Council on Education feel assured that, in offering 

 them their thanks for their invaluable services, they convey not 

 only their own sentiments but the grateful recognition of their 

 labours by the country at large. 



It will be readily understood from what has been said of the 

 nature, scope, and method of the exhibition, that a large staff was 

 required, in addition to the permanent staff of the Museum, to 

 organise and arrange the collection in the limited time which 

 could be afforded for that purpose. Special arrangements had, 

 therefore, to be made ; and their Lordships have great satisfaction 

 in recording the names of those gentlemen who have rendered 

 very valuable services, many of them as volunteers greatly 

 aiding the staff of the Museum in their laborious duties. These 

 were Captain Abney, R.E. ; Dr. Atkinson; Mr. Bartlett; Dr. 

 Brunton ; Dr. Biedermann ; Professor Crum-Brown ; Captain 

 Fellowes, R.E.; Professor Carey-Foster; Dr. Michael Foster; 

 Herr Kirchner; Professor Goodeve; Dr. Guthrie; Commander 



