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while it was needed on this side, hence my urgent request for what was 
in your hands; 
I have said all this to make my case clear—what more is to be said 
on the matter I must say when I return. I do not know what the Com- 
mittee may have done to meet my requests; it is too late now for me 
to do any more. I asked for the additional funds that I might be placed 
in an independent position, even with a surplus of money, of being 
able to do what was necessary without constriction. If they have left 
me in the lurch, I must await the turn of circumstances and do the best 
I can as things arise. So much for that. 
I have sent you a whole series of clippings from the newspapers on 
our exhibit, on banquets, receptions, etc., which may be of interest as 
Guiana was always represented, Some of the accounts are good, others 
are very curious samples of what the reporters can do. You will see 
that I was away on a Foreign Commissioners’ trip to St. Louis for 2 
days. About 70 of us went, and had a very fine time. I have also sent 
on to the Government Secretary, a series of photographs of the Guiana 
seétion which will give a fairly good idea of it as a whole. We are so 
crowded that it is a very difficult thing to have satisfactory photographs 
taken from oelow, and from above it is too far. The outside view is 
very good—and the view of our court in the Ethnology is fairly clear 
and good, though it only shews a part ot the side and front, I am 
sending by another mail another set to the Society. 
The final awards are not yet made. I think we shall have about 50 
or so. They have entailed a considerable amount of work on me in 
meeting and talking with the Judges, the more especially as | was my- 
self one of the Judges on the Ethnology and Natural History section, 
Just now I am particularly busy. Correspondence and meetings take 
up a very considerable part of my time—and reading papers at the Con- 
gresses add to it. However, I am well, in spite of severe changes of 
weather, from wet to cold and to warm and vice versa, Vast crowds are 
visiting the Exhibition from day to day. Our section is constantly 
packed with people rendering it difficult to move about init, I hopeto 
write within the next week or so when the final awards are published— 
till then let this come in as a sufficient notification that things so far go 
all right. Yours faithfully, 
J. J. QUELCH, 
The President stated that as might be seen from Mr. 
Quelch’s later communication his appeal for more funds 
