192 TiMEHRI. 



Ele6lions. — Members : Mr. John Bridges Laing and 

 H. B. Leggatt. 



Associates : Messrs. Philip S. Birch, F. 

 Mason, T. E. Plant, Junr. and Carl Wolter, 



The Secretary read the following report of the Colum- 

 bian Exposition Committee : — 



Georgetown. June 4th, 1894. 

 Thomas Daly, Esq., Hon. Secretary, 

 R. A. & C. Society. 



Sir, — By direftion of the Columbian Exposition Committee, I have 

 the honour to report as follows : — 



As the exhibits have now been returned and disposed of, as they 

 believe to the satisfaftion of all concerned, and as the final statement of 

 accounts of which I lay over copies, has been forwarded to the Govern- 

 ment, they consider that their work is concluded and that the Com- 

 mittee may now be dissolved. 



They cannot however, separate without remarking that the Colony's 

 exhibit of the Columbian Exposition was a very satisfaftory one, and 

 that the representation is likely to do good, in faft, that British Guiana 

 has been made known to thousands of persons who had scarcely beard 

 of it before. At no former exhibition, they believe, were the expenses 

 kept within the amount of the Government grant, and they think that 

 a great deal of credit is due to the Commissioner that this satisfac- 

 tory result has been attained. The reports of newspapers and private 

 parties all go to show that their Commissioner did all he could to 

 bring the Colony into notice, and they have therefore much pleasure in 

 forwarding the following copy of a resolution unanimously passed at 

 their meeting of June 2nd : — 



" Whereas, on the recommendation of this Committee, the late Gover- 

 nor of the Colony was pleased to nomin.ite John Joseph Quelch, 

 Esquire, to be sole Commissioner for British Guiana, at the World's 

 Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, and 



" Whereas Mr. Quelch has satisfactorily carried out his mission, and 

 by his energy, taft, and enterprise, not only won for the Colonial 

 Exhibits the favourable commendations ot the World 3 Fair officials 

 and judges, resulting in our having secured a number of medals and 

 diplomas, but made our representation attractive and interesting to 

 people of all nations visiting the fair, so that there is good ground for 



