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they wrote to me, and | think this says a good deal for the value of 
such an advertisement, I at any rate, am satisfied with the result, and 
I claim to be in a better position to judge than outsiders. The view 
given of Trinidad’s is not to be compared to our's since our space is 
more than double that of Trinidad in agriculture—while owing to the 
openness of their exhibit, the camera could be placed not five feet 
away. Our exhibit istoo crowded for a good photograph, but all the 
same it is one of the centres of attraction in the exhibition. 
Crowds of our visitors stiil call us British Guinea, and though I have 
26 small maps of S. America, at all the entrances to our pavilion, with 
British Guiana marked in red and showing how the name is pronounced, 
still the same thing goes on. 
The awards business goes on; and I think will soon be finished. Only 
a little is known yet of the results. I send a Tribune in which you will 
see we have nine awards for sugar and five for rum, The estates are 
marked as you will see, but the list is not quite official and the names 
are often misspelled. The system of judging is very curious and unsat- 
isfactory. Sugar is judged as sugar, so that no refining crystals, 1st 
and 2nd molasses sugar or muscovado had any chance against white 
and yellow crystals, When the judging is over and the results known, 
I am going to make a special report on the subject. Meanwhile the 
Portuguese art needlework also is awarded a medal. Judging in 
Ethnology and Natural History has only just begun, and as I am 
appointed one of the judges I am extra busy. Details I will give later 
on when more is published. I send you slips for general information, 
for the Society, and the papers on a variety ot subjects. Many of the 
Chicago notices are appearing in the papers in different States, and 
they will thus advertise us a great deal. My correspondence is getting 
considerably more than I can attend to owing to inquiries from all parts 
caused by newspaper reports, etc., and I only wish I had money enough 
to employ a secretary. British Empire day was a great success, and the 
speech for British Guiana seemed to be fairly satisfaCtory since it was 
well spoken of. With other Commissioners I went on an eight days’ 
tour through the great wheat growing states as the guest of the towns 
and railways—and we were most cordially received. You will find a 
cut of me in one of the slips from a Minneapolis paper, and you will see 
that in one of my speeches, reference was made to my “ very gracious 
English” —Good for British Guiana! The trip was good in two senses 
for us, it was a part advertisement for the colony, since British Guiana 
