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tors. We have suffered also, since we ought, on the lines on which 

 awards have been given, to have obtained several more for sugars, 

 rums, timbers, bitters, oils, etc., but though I protested and appealed in 

 each case, it has made no difference. 



The medals and diplomas will not be ready nor delivered for months, 

 if indeed within the next year, and all of us foreign Commissicners, are 

 trying to get under the Seal of the Exhibition a statement of the awards 

 made to our countries. This, the authorities promise to give. It is said 

 that even the design of the medal is not yet settled on ; and more than 

 50,000 diplomas have to be hand-written as to the Judgments passed on 

 the individual exhibits. At present in several groups of different De- 

 partments, we do not yet know what awards have been made. More 

 than this, it is impossible even now to find out whether an exhibitor 

 who gets several awards in one department, will get a medal and 

 diploma for the whole ! Apparently it rests with the Government at 

 Washington, and it is said that only one medal will be given to an 

 exhibitor in each department though the diploma will show how many 

 awards were made to him separately. To increase the number of 

 medals obtainable under this system, you will notice that where possible 

 I have entered things bought by the Exhibition Committee, under the 

 names of the makers who made them for the exhibition, as in the case 

 of Booker Bros. Cooperage, the Coolie jewelry, Mrs. Clegg's fish- scale 

 photograph frame, etc. It was the best thing to do, since the Exhibit 

 tion Committee in each case had one or more awards in the same de- 

 partment. But this, and other such matters that may ssem curious, I 

 must leave over to be explained in person, if necessary. I send you a 

 few clippings from some of the newspapers which give some idea of the 

 chief funftions etc., which have taken place recently. One from the 

 " Interocean" on our display of Natural History is pleasing, though it 

 should have been much more accurate. Another from the " Tribune" 

 bears a curious appendix giving me credit for being solely re. 

 sponsible for our display, and for having collefted all the exhibits. 

 This I suppose was inferred from my being the only Commissioner — 

 though I trust you will at least not need to be told that I am not re- 

 sponsible for the peculiar gifts of the American reporter. Another 

 paper which I sent to the Colony quite lately bears the astonishing 

 news that I have presented the entire Agricultural Exhibit of British 

 Guiana to the New Columbian Museum. This I assure you was as much 

 news to me when I read it as it will be to you when you read it. The 



