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of Cataloguing is peculiar, They have had the copy since the 
14th April, and up to now, ecnly a small part has been put in 
type. Meantime we must wait. Later on there will be the storage 
on our boxes to pay for, and the carpentering, and freight on 
the things to be sent back, which will be a large item on account 
of the distance. If it were allowed to sell duplicate objeéts, etc., 
now, we should be able to realise a good little sum on many things, 
but this is not allowed; and after the Fair, there will be such a lot of 
things in all the different buildings that we cannot hope to realise much. 
At present funds are all right, and with the $800 which should be sent 
on; I may be able to go through all right, the more especially if the 
handbooks are sent back for sale and their value realised. Later on I 
shall be able to speak more definitely on this point. 
I hope the copies of the ‘‘ Illustrated” will come in as a little piétorial 
souvenir of British Guiana at the Exposition. 
As regards the Indian Seétion, | may mention that we have a very 
good location in the Anthropological Building, and I think it will be a 
good show we make there. Our space there is 44 ft. by 28 ft. = 1,232 
sq ft. I only wish that in the Agricultural Buildings we had asked for 
something in proportion, we should then have had about 5,000 sq. ft. 
with space to shew our things to advantage and plenty of room for 
wide passages which is a much more important matter than at first 
sight appears. However we are very popular as it is, and the smaller 
space has given us less expenditure in cases and materials generally, 
The worst of it is that people who do not see what you show, judge of 
the importance of the exhibit by the space. I may also mention that 
one of the Indian houses has been constructed on the grounds on tbe 
S. lagoon. The other was in course of construction when the news 
reached me that the Indians were not coming, and I then did away with 
it. The timber I have used as a railing round the space in the building 
of Ethnology and besides for a small model entrance to the Seétion, in 
the shape of an ordinary forest benab, The various boats were a good 
deal damaged, but I have had them repaired and caulked, and the gold 
boat neatly painted. 
By this same mail, I am writing a report to the Government. It 
occurred to me that although I wrote regular reports to the Society, it 
was still due to the Government to report progress, I am sending also 
under cover to them press clippings from the papers of notices of our 
exhibits, and of lunches, banquets and receptions and meetings gene- 
