the following
persons, who have heretofore cooperated for a similar purpose under
the authority of the several Departments, bureaus, and institutions
with which they are connected, as members of said board:

Professor Thomas C. Mendenhall, United States Coast and Geodetic
Survey, chairman.

Andrew H. Allen, Department of State.

Captain Henry L. Howison, Light-House Board, Treasury Department.

Captain Thomas Turtle, Engineer Corps, War Department.

Lieutenant Richardson Clover, Hydrographic Office, Navy Department.

Pierson H. Bristow, Post-Office Department.

Otis T. Mason, Smithsonian Institution.

Herbert G. Ogden, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.

Henry Gannett, United States Geological Survey.

Marcus Baker, United States Geological Survey.

To this board shall be referred all unsettled questions concerning
geographic names which arise in the Departments, and the decisions
of the board are to be accepted by these Departments as the standard
authority in such matters.

Department officers are instructed to afford such assistance as may be
proper to carry on the work of this board.

The members of this board shall serve without additional compensation
and its organization shall entail no expense on the Government.

The report of the board thus constituted has been submitted to me, and
is herewith transmitted for the information of Congress and with a view
to its publication in suitable form if such action is deemed by Congress
to be desirable.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 5, 1892_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

The famine prevailing in some of the Provinces of Russia is so severe
and widespread as to have attracted the sympathetic interest of a
large number of our liberal and favored people. In some of the great
grain-producing States of the West movements have already been organized
to collect flour and meal for the relief of these perishing Russian
families, and the response has been such as to justify the belief that
a ship's cargo can very soon be delivered at the seaboard through the
generous cooperation of the transportation lines. It is most appropriate
that a people whose storehouses have been so lavishly filled with all
the fruits of the earth by the gracious favor of God should manifest
their gratitude by large gifts to His suffering children in other lands.

The Secretary of the Navy has no