the inner wall of the hall was the
portrait of Her Majesty the Empress of Japan, and occupying a section of
the room were the exhibits of the Red Cross Society of Japan, in which
the Empress takes a keen interest. The resting cottage was modeled after
a cottage in a shogun's (military magistrate) garden, two or three
centuries ago. Close to the south bank of the lake was a small
reproduction of Kinkaku Temple. Close to the right of the front gate of
the garden stood the Formosa mansion, a fair representation of
characteristic native dwellings. The Kinkaku Temple was built under the
auspices of the Japan Tea Traders' Association, and the Formosa mansion
by the initiative of the Formosa government.

MEXICO.

_Members of Mexico commission_.--Engineer Albino R. Nuncio,
commissioner-general; Mr. Benito Navarro, assistant to the
commissioner-general; Mr. Juan Renteria, assistant to the commissioners
general; Engineer Lauro Viadas, chief department of agriculture; Mr.
Daniel R. De la Vega, assistant to the chief; Mr. Isidoro Aldasoro,
chief department of art and ethnology; Mr. Leopoldo Tell and Mr. Octavio
Andrade, assistants to the chief; Mr. Maximiliano M. Chabert, chief
department of liberal arts; Mr. Alberto Ocampo, assistant to the chief;
Mr. Julio Poulat, chief department of education; Mr. Manuel Costa,
assistant to the chief; Mr. Enrique Garibay, chief department of
forestry, fish, and game; Mr. Jorge Salazar, assistant to the chief;
Mr. J. Alberto MacDowell, chief department of horticulture; Mr. J.M.
Nuncio, chief department of manufactures; Mr. Antonio Sierra Cruz,
assistant to the chief; Engineer Eduardo Mantinez Baca, chief department
of mines and metallurgy; Mr. Miguel Peinado, assistant to the chief;
Maj. S. Garcia Cuellar, chief department of transportation; Lieut.
Manuel Garcia Lugo and Lieut. Jose Ortiz Monasterio, assistants to the
chief; Mrs. Laura M. De Cuenca, Dr. Plutarco Ornelas, Prof Teofilo
Frezieres, Mr. E.H. Talbot, Mr. Jose M. Trigo De Claver, Mr. Roberto
Garcia, Mr. Jose A. Bonilla.

The amounts voted by the Mexican Congress, according to dates since the
organization of the work, for the participation of Mexico at the
Universal Exposition of St. Louis, were as follows:

October 22, 1901 ............................... $50,000
July 1, 1902 ................................... 70,000
November 23, 1902 .............................. 15,000
July 1, 1903 ................................... 90,0