No. 535.
Mr. Phelps
to Mr. Bayard.
Legation of
the United States,
London, September 11, 1888.
(Received September 22.)
No. 823.]
Sir: It is with very great gratification that I
inclose the copy of a letter which I have just received from the foreign
office with respect to Messrs. Taylor and Armistead, graduates of the United
States Naval Academy
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and for the
past three years private students of marine engineering at the Royal Naval
College, Greenwich.*
You will observe that in the recent final examination Mr. Taylor obtained the
first place, with a total of 8,234 marks, an amount that has only once been
exceeded; and he was awarded a professional certificate of the first class,
besides being highly commended by the director of studies.
Mr. Armistead obtained the fifth place in the same examination and was
awarded a professional certificate of the second class.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure in No. 823.]
Sir T. V. Lister to
Mr. Phelps.
Foreign
Office, September 8,
1888.
Sir: With reference to my letter of the 15th
October, 1885, on the subject of the admission of two graduates of the
United States Naval Academy at Annapolis as private students of marine
engineering at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, I have the honor to
inform you that I have received a communication from the lords
commissioners of the admiralty with regard to the places obtained by
those gentlemen in the final examination of students of marine
engineering and private students at the college in July last.
Their lordships state that Mr. Taylor obtained the first place in that
examination and was awarded a professional certificate of the first
class, with a total of 8,234 marks, an amount that has only once been
exceeded in this examination, and that the director of studies reports
that “Mr. Taylor has great natural ability, and has worked very steadily
throughout his three years’ course.”
With regard to Mr. Armistead, the lords commissioners have informed me
that he obtained the fifth place in the same examination, and was
awarded a professional certificate of the second class.
I have, etc.,
T. V.
Lister.
(For the Marquis of
Salisbury.)
