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canvass the State to assist in raising the $300,000 desired. 

 Nineteen Texas architects submitted plans for the Texas 

 building - , and the best five of the plans have been forwarded 

 to the Exposition Construction Department at Chicago. 



Pennsylvania's World's Fair Board has appropriated 

 S 1, 000, to be distributed in premiums in the Agricultural 

 and Live- Stock Departments of the exhibit from that 

 State. 



The Michigan State Horticultural Society intends to 

 exhibit a peach orchard in full bearing. 



The project of establishing a Columbian Memorial 

 Museum, which shall be a permanent attraction and which, 

 it is expected, will be given many thousands of curios and 

 other objects exhibited at the Exposition, is being warmly 

 supported by a number of Exposition officials and others. 



It is announced that within thirty days the tearing down 

 of the old Inter-state Exposition building on the Lake 

 Front in Chicago will begin. On its site will be erected a 

 permanent Art Institute building costing $600,000 or more. 

 The Exposition authorities contribute $200,000 of this 

 amount, and during the Exposition the structure will be 

 utilized for some of the meetings provided by the World's 

 Congress Auxiliary. 



Miss Alice Rideout, of San Francisco, has won the dis- 

 tinction of having submitted the best designs for the 

 statuary which is to adorn the Woman's Building. She 

 submitted three designs in plaster, representing respectively 

 "Woman's Virtues," " Woman as the Spirit of Civiliza- 

 tion," and " Woman's Place in History." The first and 

 last groups will stand free above the attic cornice, sixty 

 feet from the ground, and will cost from $1,500 to $2.500 

 each. The third, "Woman as the Spirit of Civilization," 

 will be in high relief, and will fill the pediment over the 

 main entrance of the Woman's Building. It will cost 

 about $3,000. 



On the 16th February, Henry Walter Bates, 

 F.R.S., Secretary of the Royal Geographical 

 Society, aged 67 years. A widow, three sons and 

 one daughter, remain to deplore his loss. The 

 biography and portrait of this Naturalist will 

 appear in April number of The Humming Bird. 



