CHICAGO, October 12, 1893.

The Daughters of the American Revolution, unwilling to recognize that Chicago Day is the fullest expression of the appreciation by the American people of the World's Columbian Exposition, have appointed the undersigned a committee to bring about the celebration of the last day of the Fair as Patriotic Day.

That this day may prove a fitting climax to the greatest exhibition the world has ever known, or will for a long time see, we invite the co-operation of patriotic societies and the people. We request every society receiving this invitation to at once appoint a committee that will arrange and carry out such plans as will command the largest possible attendance from their members and the friends of their members on Patriotic Day. We ask the citizens of the City of Chicago and of the State of Illinois to do their part in seeing to it that there are at least one million people on the grounds on Patriotic Day. If Chicago Day could show an attendance of over 750,000 people, certainly Patriotic Day can add 250,000 more.

As a committee of women, Daughters of the American Revolution, we ask the attendance and co-operation of the women of our land in our work, that they will not only come themselves, but see to it that those within the circle of their influence come also. We intend that the day shall be the greatest object lesson that the world has ever known, in the interest of liberty, world-wide peace and good will.

As on the Fourth of July the Columbian Liberty Bell was the central feature of the occasion, so on Patriotic Day the celebration will be around the bell, and the addresses will be in the nature of farewell to the exposition and God-speed to the bell on its mission of liberty, peace and good will throughout the world.

MRS. ADLAI E. STEVENSON, Bloomington, Ill.

President-General Daughters of American Revolution, Chairman.

MRS. S. H. KERFOOT, 136 Rush St., Chicago.

State Regent, Daughters of American Revolution.

MRS. HENRY M. SHEPHERD, 4445 Grand Blvd., Chicago.

MRS. LYMAN TRUMBULL, 4003 Lake Av., Chicago.

MRS. WILLIAM THAYER BROWN, Chicago.

MISS MELLA D. EVERHART, Secretary, Virginia Hotel, Chicago.

P. S.—Since the above invitation was prepared, the Board of Directors have adopted the following resolution:

"*Resolved*, That the Board deems it fitting that the closing day of the Exposition should be made an unusual event in its history, and therefore recommend to the Council of Administration that the said day be termed Columbus Day, and that arrangements for its celebration be made on a scale befitting its importance."

While under any name we will, and we ask you to do your best for its great success, we still prefer the name of "Patriotic Day" for the closing day of the Exposition, and we hope the Board will reconsider this part of its resolution. The Exposition is and has been one continuous "Columbus Day." We desire and we beg that the closing shall be in the name of Patriotism, Peace and Good Will, Love of Home and Country, and the noblest conditions, that not only we, the people of the United States, but our guests, the representatives of every nation, shall celebrate on that day their love of home and country, each in his own peculiar way, that the world may know and see a united Fourth of July celebration as the closing scene of the World's Columbian Exposition, in the interest of "Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace and good will among men;" and thus again on that day give emphasis to the Columbian texts upon the great bell, "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another."

THE COMMITTEE.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.

S. P. LANGLEY, SECRETARY.

BUREAU OF INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES.

December 13, 1893.

My dear Professor Hall:

I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of
December 8th, with reference to the transmission of the 6th
volume of the Memoirs of the Academy, through the Exchange
service. The appropriations for the Exchange service for
the past year were entirely inadequate, and it was on this
account that a bill for the transmission of its volumes was
sent to the Academy, placing it on the same terms as Governmen-
tBureaus. A charge of five cents per pound has been made, as
perhaps you are aware, to Government Bureaus by a Resolution
of the Board of Regents in 1878.

Under the circumstances I transmit this last volume as
you request, though I fear I cannot do so again unless a
sufficient appropriation be made by Congress to meet the ex-
penses of the Exchange service in the future.

Very truly yours,

Professor Asaph Hall, U.S.N.,

Home Secretary,
The National Academy of Sciences.