No. 265.
Mr. Lowell
to Mr. Frelinghuysen.
Legation of
the United States,
London, November 19, 1883.
(Received December 3.)
No. 666.]
Sir: I take great pleasure in transmitting herewith
a copy of a letter addressed to me by the chairman of the executive
committee of the Great International Fisheries Exhibition, London, 1883,
requesting me to convey to the Government of the United States the special
expression by his royal highness the Prince of Wales, the president, and the
members of the executive committee, of their gratitude for the admirable
manner in which our Government has so effectively and generously responded
to the appeal for co-operation in the past exhibition.
I am also requested to bring to the notice of the Government of the United
States the valuable services of Professor Goode and other gentlemen in
organizing the American section of the exhibition and in the jury
department.
I have, &c.
[Inclosure in No. 666.]
Mr. Birkbeck to Mr.
Lowell.
London, November 16,
1883.
Sir: I am desired by his royal highness the
Prince of Wales, the president, and by the members of the executive
committee of the International Fisheries Exhibition, to request your
excellency to convey to the Government of the United States the special
expression of their gratitude for the admirable manner in which the
Government of the United States have so effectively and generously
responded to the appeal for cooperation in the past exhibition.
It has been a matter generally acknowledged by all classes of the
community that it was impossible to conceive a better interpretation of
the wishes of the promoters of this exhibition than that so methodically
and so ably rendered by the learned and experienced staff of gentlemen
who were charged by Prof. Spencer F. Baird to give the benefit of their
experience and advice to us. The rapid organization and the specially
successful arrangement and decoration of the United States court have
been the theme and the general admiration of the public, and I trust
that we may be allowed to request you to bring under the notice of your
Government the eminent
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services of the learned Prof. G. Brown Goode, who has so worthily and
actively represented the Commission of Fish and Fisheries. His services
have not only been of an administrative character, but the active part
which he has taken in the conference and in the discussions which have
taken place throughout the exhibition were acknowledged to be of very
great benefit and advantage to all those concerned.
We would wish also to bring under your excellency’s notice the service of
the assistant commissioners, Messrs. Earll, Bean, Clark, and Captain
Collins, and the gentlemen in charge of the special exhibits, who have
so ably carried out the duties intrusted to them by your Government. And
further, we cannot conclude without expressing our gratitude for the
eminent services rendered in the jury department, for the whole of the
exhibition, by the following gentlemen, namely, Messrs. Earll,
Hitchcock, Russell, and Clark, and also Captain Collins and Lieutenant
McLellan, who were so good as to undertake the onerous duties of the
jury work.
I have, &c.,
EDWARD BIRKBECK,
Chairman of the
Executive Committee.
