articles and promptly at seven we descended me from to the dining room. Here we were tratted to a splendid banquet; there were just tly 300 plots, set. Mostly small tables with a few large ones in between. We elected a small table for four and I sat down with Davis, Ries and Stanton. When the champagne was served the President arose and in an address of welcome spoke about five minutes. He thanked us for the knowledge we had adduced. Ayulzena re- sponded and spoke of the President as the Patron of Science in Mexico. Leaving the castle we looked down upon the city amid darkness but beset with large and small sparkling electric lights. Our carriages awaited us and we arrived at our hotels before ten. All the Ministers of foreign countries were there and many notable Mexican ladies and gentlemen. I should never have dreamed that I should dine with the President of the Mexican Republic and on the anniversary day when the Americans stormed Chapultepec.