It has been widely published and is the only bill that has been drawn for the purpose that has not met with pronounced objections. I trust that this Society[47] will give serious consideration to the measure and, if it meets with your approval, send at the proper time a strong expression of that approval to the National Congress. EDGAR L. HEWETT. NATIONAL MUSEUM, WASHINGTON. JOHN PAUL JONES’ FELLOW OFFICERS So much public interest has been aroused in the United States by the discovery of the body of John Paul Jones in Paris, and so many misleading and confusing statements have been published about his career that it is desirable to understand just what was the part he played in the naval struggle for independence, and what is the value of his services as compared with those rendered by his compatriots on the high seas. Jones, unquestionably, stood head and shoulders over his brother officers in the service of the Revolution; yet there were some who pressed him rather closely in the award of honors concerning whose deeds comparatively little is known. [It was our hope to have printed an account of the finding of John Paul Jones’ body, written by General Horace Porter, but the General wrote us from Paris May 22: “I knew very well Mrs. Lamb’s Magazine, and would be very happy to be a contributor to yours, but am so pressed by the winding up of my duties here, and the finishing of the translations of French experts and scientists, etc., on the Paul Jones matter, that I really have not a moment I can call my own. Assuring you of my appreciation of the interest you have manifested in the subject, and regretting very much that I cannot answer you more favorably. Yours very truly, HORACE PORTER.” We have, however, much pleasure in quoting from the New York _Evening Post_ the article by Edgar Stanton Maclay.—ED.]