To its public-spirited and whole-souled President, Mr.Morris K.Jesup, I am under profound obligations.

I also take pleasure in acknowledging my indebtedness to Mr.Andrew Carnegie, who initiated my Mexican ventures with a subscription of $1,000; furthermore to the Hon.

Cecil Baring, Mr.Frederick A.Constable, Mr.William E.Dodge, Mr.James Douglass, Mrs.Joseph W.Drexel, Mr.George J.Gould, Miss Helen Miller Gould, Mr.Archer M.Huntington, Mr.Frederick E.Hyde, Mr.D.Willis James, Col.

James K.Jones, the Duke of Loubat, Mr.Peter Marie, Mr.Henry G.Marquand, Mr.F.O.

Matthiessen, Mr.Victor Morawetz, Mr.J.Pierpont Morgan, Mrs.Edwin Parsons, Mr.Archibald Rogers, Mr.F.Augustus Schermerhorn, Mr.William C.Schermerhorn, Mr.Charles Stewart Smith, Mr.James Speyer, Mr.George W.Vanderbilt, Mr.William C.Whitney, of New York; to Mr.Frederick L.Ames, Mrs.John L.Gardner, Mrs.E.Mason, Mr.Nathaniel Thayer, Mr.Samuel D.Warren, Dr.Charles G.Weld, of Boston; to Mr.Allison D.Armour and Mr.Franklin MacVeagh, of Chicago; to Mrs.Phoebe Hearst, Mr.Frank G.New.lands, Mrs.Abby M.Parrot, Mr.F.W.Sharon, of San Francisco; to Mr.Adolphus Busch, of St.Louis; to Mr.Theo.