All the governments named above have accepted the invitation, those marked "informal" having declared an intention to assist exhibitors in an unofficial manner.

DESCRIPTION OF THE BUILDINGS.

Woman's Building.-The first building completed was the Woman's Building. It is prominently situated in the northwestern part of the park, facing the lagoon, is 400 feet in width and 200 feet in depth, and has a staircase and landing leading to a terrace six feet above the water. The style of architecture is Italian Renaissance, and the building is two stories in height. A lobby 40 feet wide leads into the rotunda (70 x 65 feet), which is surmounted by an ornamental skylight. Around the rotunda is a two-story open arcade. On the first floor is a model hospital, a model kindergarten, each 80 x 60 feet, and the whole floor of the south pavilion has been set apart for the reform work and charity organizations. Each floor 80 x 200 feet. Opposite the main front entrance are the library, bureau of information, records, etc. In the second story are the ladies' dressing-rooms and parlors, and an assemblyroom, with an elevated stage for speakers, and club-room. The south pavilion has been provided with model kitchen and refreshment-rooms. The building cost $120,000.

Administrative Building.—This building is located at the west side of the great court and cost $450,000. It is 260 feet square, and consists of four pavilions, 84 feet square, one at each of the four angles of the square. It is crowned by a dome 120 feet in diameter and 220 feet in height. The ground

floor contains in one pavilion the Fire and Police Departments, with cells for the detention of prisoners; in the second pavilion are the offices of the Ambulance service, the Physician and Pharmacy, the Foreign Departments and the Information Bureau; in the third pavilion the Post-office and a Bank, and in the fourth the offices of Public Comfort and a Restaurant. Ample provision has been made in the second, third and fourth stories for the Boardrooms, the Committee-rooms, the rooms of the Director-General, the Department of Publicity and Promotions, and for the United States Columbian Commission.

Machinery Hall.-The building known as Machinery Hall is 800 x 500 feet in dimensions and presents a most imposing appearance. It is located at the extreme south end of the park and south of the Administrative Building. Its cost with Annex and Power House, $1,200,000. The building is spanned by three arched trusses, and its interior resembles railroad train houses. The Annex covers between four and five acres and increases the length of the Machinery building to about 1,400 feet. It is the second largest structure on the ground.

Manufactures and Liberal Arts Buildings.-The largest of all the buildings for the Exposition is that constructed for Manufactures and the Liberal Arts. It is 1,687 feet long by 787 feet wide and covers an area of thirty and a half acres. It cost $1,500,000. The great central hall has a clear space of 1,280 feet by 380 feet, and is surrounded by a nave and two galleries. The apex of the roof is 2451⁄2 feet, which is supported by twenty-two steel arches. The total length of the gallery is 3,504 feet. The east and west halls of the nave are 1,588 feet long, and total length of the nave, 4,119 feet. The building is three times as large as St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome. The style of architecture of the building is Corinthian, and it has four great entrances, one in the centre of each façade.

Transportation Building.-The Transportation Building, costing $280,000, lies between the Horticultural and Mines Buildings and faces eastward. It is of the Romanesque style of architecture and is surmounted by a cupola. The interior of the building has broad naves and aisles, and the roof is in three divisions. The cupola is reached by eight elevators. The main building is 960 feet front by 250 feet deep. From this extends westward to Stony Island avenue, an Annex covering 9 acres. It is but one story in height. What is known as the Transportation Exhibit includes everything known in the way of transportations, such as baby-carriages, cars, engines, vessels, carrier pigeons, etc.

Horticultural Building.-The Horticultural Building cost $300,000. It is immediately south of the entrance to Jackson Park from the Midway Plaisance and faces east on the lagoon. The building is 1,000 feet long and 250 feet in width. It has a central and two end pavilions, each connected with the central one by front and rear curtains, forming two interior courts, each 88 x 270 feet. The centre pavilion is roofed by a crystal dome 187 feet in diameter and 113 feet high, under which are exhibited tall palms, bamboos, ferns, etc. There are galleries in each of the pavilions. The galleries of the end pavilions are designed for cafés. The exhibit in this building consists of varieties of flowers, plants, vines, seeds, horticultural implements, etc.

Agricultural Building.—The style of architecture of this beautiful building is classic Renaissance. It is located near the shore of Lake Michigan and is surrounded by the lagoons that lead into the park from the lake. Its dimensions are 500 x 800 feet, and cost, with annex, $1,000,000. The building covers an area of more than 9 acres and its annex 3.8 acres. It is a singlestory building. On either side of the main entrance are Corinthian pillars 50 feet high and 5 feet in diameter. The centre pavilion is 144 feet square. The entire building is overtopped by a glass dome 130 feet high, and the

rotunda is 100 feet in diameter. In the southern part of the building is a structure known as a Live Stock and Agricultural Assembly Hall. The structure is conveniently near one of the stations of the elevated railway. On the first floor is a Bureau of Information, suitable committee rooms for Live Stock Associations, waiting rooms for ladies, lounging rooms for gentlemen and toilet accommodations. The Assembly room, upstairs, has a seating capacity of 1,500, and where lectures will be delivered upon every topic relative to agriculture, live stock, etc. Adjacent to the Agricultural Building and its annex are buildings for the forestry and dairy exhibits, whose dimensions are 200 by 500 feet and 95 by 200 feet respectively.

Dairy Building.-The Dairy Building is 95 x 200 feet, with an area of .5 acres, and cost $30,000. In this building will be a school of contest both between herds and individuals of the chief breeds of dairy cattle, with a view of ascertaining the respective merits of each in milk-giving and butterproducing. There will be all kinds of dairy utensils and appliances on exhibition. The "Dairy School" is the special feature of this building.

Forestry Building. This eligibly located building is 200 x 500 feet in dimensions and is of a rustic order of architecture. There is a veranda supporting the roof, the colonnade of which is composed of tree trunks each 25 feet in length, all of them in their natural state. The roof is thatched with tan bark and other barks. The various wood finishings of the interior are both unique and attractive. The tree trunks were contributed by different States and Territories and Foreign Countries, the name of each tree being known by a placard. The building has on exhibit forest products, logs and sections of trees, dressed lumber, such as flooring, casing, shingles, etc., dye woods and barks, lichens, wood pulp, rattan willow ware, woodenware and numerous other specimens. Several complete sawmills will be in operation. The sawmill plants occupy a building 125 x 300 feet in size and costing about $35,000. The forestry building proper cost $100,000.

Fisheries Building.-The location of the Fisheries Building is at a point northwest of the United States Government Building. Its proportions are 1,100 feet in length by 200 feet in depth. It cost $200,000, inclusive of two smaller polygonal buildings. The aquaria, ten in number, are supplied with gold, tench and other fish and have a capacity of from 7,000 to 27,000 gallons each. The total water capacity of the aquaria, exclusive of reservoir, is 18,725 cubic feet, or 140,000 gallons. The glass fronts of the aquaria are about 575 feet in length and have 3,000 square feet of surface. The supply of sea water was secured by evaporating the necessary quantities at the Woods Holl station of the United States Fish Commission, to about one fifth of its bulk, thus reducing both quantity and weight for transportation about 80 per cent. The fresh water required to restore it to its proper density was supplied from Lake Michigan.

Hall of Mines and Mining.-The Hall of Mines and Mining is of the Italian Renaissance order of architecture, and is located at the southern extremity of the western lagoon, just between the Electricity and Transportation Structures. In dimensions it is 700 feet in length by 350 feet in width and it cost $260,000. On the ground floor are restaurants and toilet rooms. The galleries are 25 feet high and 60 feet wide. The covered promenades are each 25 feet in width by 230 feet in length. Between the main entrance and the pavilions are ornamental arcades forming a loggia on the ground floor and a recessed promenade on the gallery floor: a great portion of the roof is covered with glass.

Electrical Building. This building is opposite the Manufactures Building, and on the west side faces the Mines Building. It cost $375,000. The exterior of the building is of the Corinthian order of architecture, and the general plan is that of a longitudinal nave 115 feet wide and 114 feet high, crossed in the middle by a transept having a pitched roof with skylights, the