ition, inviting their cooperation and presence,
and offering to do what we could toward that end. At the request
of the present chairman, Mrs. Manning conferred with the
officers of the exposition as to what had already been done, and
with the State Department in Washington as to what could be
done, and prepared the circular appended, the State Department
sending it out to its officials in the following countries:

Berne, Switzerland; Bucharest, Roumania; Belgrade, Servia;
Brussels, Belgium; Constantinople, Turkey; Copenhagen, Denmark;
Athens, Greece; Berlin, Germany; Habana, Cuba; Lisbon, Portugal;
Rome, Italy; Paris, France; Madrid, Spain; Stockholm, Sweden;
St. Petersburg, Russia; Sofia, Bulgaria; Vienna, Austria;
London, England; The Hague, Netherlands; Egypt; Mexico; China;
Japan; Dominion of Canada.

The cordial cooperation of the Government, through the State
Department, was a source of great satisfaction to the committee,
giving, as it did, not only currency to the circular, but
putting the weight and dignity of the Government behind our
action. For this, and for the extremely valuable circular so
finely adapted to the need, and so eloquently setting forth the
objects of the exposition and the aims and desires of this
board, we are, as in so many other things, indebted to the
experience and ability of Mrs. Manning.

His Excellency the MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF ----.

EXCELLENCY: By an act of Congress of the United States, the
board of lady managers of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition is
directed to join with the other constituted authorities in
commemorating the great event in the history of the United
States when, a century ago, there was added to its territory a
new field which to-day is the home of many people, and where
earnest and sincere women, as well as men, are laboriously
working out the problem of the progress of humanity and the
advancement of the race.

No single individual, no one people, no separate country can
supply that full knowledge from which may be fixed the
conditions of mankind, its development in the industries, the
arts, the sciences at the commencement of the twentieth century.
The entire world must contribute to this knowledge, and
therefore the entire world has been invited to take part in this
universal exposition