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A ROYAL COMMISSION has been appointed to obtain and distribute full information as to the best mode by which the United Kingdom and British dominions may be represented at the St. Louis International Exhibition to be opened next year, to assist with advice and cooperation, and generally to promote the success of the exhibition. The commissioners are:—His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, president; Viscount Peel, chairman; the Earl of Jersey, Earl Howe, Lord Castletown, Lord Inverclyde, Lord Alverstone, Lord Avebury, Mr. Horace Plunkett, the Hon. Charles Napier Lawrence, the Hon. Sir Charles W. Fremantle, Sir G. Hayter Chubb, Sir Edward J. Poynter, Sir C. Rivers Wilson, Sir E. Maunde Thompson, Sir William H. Preece, Sir W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, Sir Herbert Jekyll, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, R.A., Sir C. Purdon Clarke, Sir George T. Livesey, Mr. Henry H. S. Cunynghame, Mr. Edwin A. Abbey, R.A., Mr. Charles Vernon Boys, F.R.S., Mr. Thomas Brock, R.A., Mr. George Donaldson, Prof. C. Le Neve Foster, F.R.S., Mr. John C. Hawkshaw, Mr. Thomas G. Jackson, R.A., Mr. W. Henry Maw, Mr. F. G. Ogilvie, Mr. William Q. Orchardson, R.A., Mr. Boverton Redwood, F.R.S., Mr. Alfred G. Salamon, Mr. Joseph W. Swan, F.R.S., Mr. J. J. Harris Teall, F.R.S., and Mr, F. W. W Webb. Colonel C. M. Watson, C.B., is appointed secretary of the Commission.