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enter any of her exhibits for Awards, in spite of the modifications that 

 were made to suit the foreign Commissioners when they protested last 

 May as a body. The statement is made in the papers to day that certi- 

 fied lists of Awards for each country have been prepared and will be 

 delivered to each foreign Commissioner, but up to the present we have 

 no official notification in the matter. It is said the lists have been 

 much reduced, several awards which had been given by the inter- 

 national board of Judges having been struck off ; but as a body, we are 

 at a loss to understand this, since nobody but the Judges can give or 

 take away awards, and the Judges hav^i been disbanded. It seems use- 

 less to write to the authorities on the matter, we get no redress ; and 

 we had to move a formal protest against such treatment, in our last 

 meeting, and to have it entered on our minutes that we might be able 

 to show our Governments the peculiarity of the situation. To this end 

 also, we had the minutes of our meetings printed to show how through 

 the whole Fair, we were always struggling against unjust or stupid 

 officialism. This will cost us each $io for the smaller Commissions, 

 the larger of course more. 



You might please notify the Book Committee that I have not for- 

 gotten the volumes they wanted. The World's Columbian Exposition 

 Illustrated, is only completed in the December number, and it was no 

 good to get it before. By the bye the last number has a whole page 

 illustration, a very good one too, of the exhibit of animals of British 

 Guiana. Of course we paid nothing for it. They asked me to group 

 the animals from different parts of the Court, one day, and the whole 

 composite group comes out very nicely. The reports of the World's 

 Congress Auxiliary will not be completed for some months, many of 

 the parts not being yet sent to press. What I can bring with me, 

 I will, together with a number of catalogues, etc., from the various sec- 

 tions and countries at the Fair. 



I have bought up a few lantern slides of some of the buildings, parts 

 of the grounds, and other views of the exhibition, in case they might 

 come in for illustration of any talk on the subject : but the slides pre- 

 pared are by no means complete, though they would help to give a 

 very fair pi6ture of the Fair. 



You will have had telegrams and notices of the revision of the tariff 

 and the changes made, particularly in the sugar duties. I believe that 

 the West Indian and Guiana exhibits have had a good deal to do with 

 this. Jamaica, Trinidad and Demerara all had good exhibits, though 



