Report of Society's Meetings. 165 



The following communication from Mr. J. J. Quelch 

 was taken as read : — 



Chicago, November 25th, 1893. 

 L. M. Hill, Esq., Hon. Sec, 



R. A. and C. Society. 



Dear Sir, — I stated in my last letter to you that I hoped to write at 

 the end of Oftober, and to send you a list of awards made to British 

 Guiana, which was expefled to be completed at that time for publica- 

 tion. Up to the present time the list is not yet ready, though the 

 Bureau of Awards has been holding out promises from day to 

 day. As you may be wondering in the Colony what has become of me, 

 I think I had better not wait any longer for the list. I send you how- 

 ever a temporary statement, the listed part of which, to the number of 

 46 awards, has been taken from the books of the Committee on 

 Awards. The parts marked " not listed," from 47-53> are also definite 

 awards which have been notified in the daily newspapers, though the 

 Bureau of Awards does not hold itself responsible for their correftness. 

 Besides these fifty three, there are 12 others which have been given 

 separately by the Judges in the Department of Ethnology and Natural 

 History, but as the only exhibitors were either the Exhibition Com- 

 mittee or the B. G. Museum, there is a desire on the part of the Bureau 

 on awards to run these together as one to each of these two exhibitors, 

 I have of course protested against such aftion, since it would cause 12 

 separate awards to appear as 2. These awards were given separately, 

 for pottery, boats, hammocks, feather crowns, basket work, birds 

 mammals, fishes, Arrawack Indian, etc., and I pointed out that it would 

 be as sensible and fair to run these together in one term as a colleflion 

 of Ethnology, as it would be to place together for one award, under 

 the term collection of Agriculture, whatever might have been granted 

 to one exhibitor for cacao, coffee, starch, sugar, rum, etc. 



I can't of course say what the result will be, but the whole matter of 

 awards has been such a bundle of injustice and wrangling between 

 parties and nations, that I doubt whether anything satisfactory will 

 result. I don't know a single nation that last May objefted to the 

 system that does not now wish it had kept out of it altogether without 

 compromise; while it is said that three or four of the chief nations 

 are so dissatisfied, on account of their treatment by the Bureau, that 

 they intend to refuse to accept any of the awards made to their Exhibi- 



