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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS.
- Hon. William L. Wilson, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Fifty-third Congress.
- Hon. J. R. Soley, formerly Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
- Edward Atkinson, Ll. D., Ph. D.
- Col. T. A. Dodge, U. S. A.
- Col. George E. Waring, Jr.
- J. B. McMaster, Professor of History in the University of Pennsylvania.
- Charles Dudley Warner, LL. D.
- Major J. W. Powell, Director of the U. S. Geological Survey and the Bureau of Ethnology.
- William T. Harris, LL. D., U. S. Commissioner of Education.
- Lyman Abbott, D. D.
- H. H. Bancroft, author of "Native Races of the Pacific Coast."
- Harry Pratt Judson, Head Dean of the Colleges, University of Chicago.
- Judge Thomas M. Cooley, formerly Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
- Charles Francis Adams.
- D. A. Sargent, M. D., Director of the Hemenway Gymnasium, Harvard University.
- Charles Horton Cooley.
- A. E. Kennelly, Assistant to Thomas A. Edison.
- D. C. Gilman, LL. D., President of Johns Hopkins University.
- H. G. Prout, Editor of the Railroad Gazette.
- F. D. Millet, formerly Vice-President of the National Academy of Design.
- F. W. Taussig, Professor of Political Economy in Harvard University.
- Henry van Brunt.
- H. P. Fairfield.
- Samuel W. Abbott, M. D., Secretary of the State Board of Health, Massachusetts.
- N. S. Shaler.
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Transcriber's notes:
Obvious printer's errors have been corrected, all other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling has been maintained.