a garden of a genuine Japanese style covered an extensive space of ground, in which stood the Government building.  Attached to it was a reception hall and several artistic mansions.  Displays of Japanese garden and floricultural arts were exhibited in the garden.  In the reception hall were exhibited various data showing the growth and present status of the Red Cross Society of Japan.  Altogether, the dimension of space taken by Japan for the garden aggregated approximately 148,361 square feet.  Artistically distributed within the precincts of the garden were the reception hall, the office building, the Formosa tea house, the Kinkaku tea house, and several cottages and a bazaar.  Hills and waterfalls, ponds and bridges were presented in miniature scale.  In the verdant lawns flowers of different colors were all harmonized into an artistic unit in unique landscape gardening.  Beautifully trained dwarf trees, centuries old, were brought from Japan for the special purpose of ornamenting the garden.  There were also the drooping wisteria and gay peony, the scented lily and blushing maple.

The building materials for the reception hall, the office building, and resting cottages were brought from Japan.  The reception hall was built entirely by native carpenters, after the style of a daimyo’s goten (palace of feudal lord) of some six hundred years ago.  The architectural style of the building was what is termed Heike, a style prevailing at the time when a military family called Heike held a paramount power.  The artistically curved roofs, projecting one upon another, were a modest representation of architectural accomplishment already attained in Japan several centuries ago.  Hanging on 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,