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tiime the system, at least iu its present dimensious ; and we embraeo 

 this occasion again to exi^ress acknowledgments for the efficient aid 

 thus rendered to the cause of science and to the promotion of kindly 

 feeling" between the United States and the other nations of the world. 

 The following are the companies to which special thanks are due, 

 namely, The Pacific Mail Steamship Company, Xorth German Lloyd. 

 Hamburg American Steamship Company, General Transatlantic Steam- 

 ship Comi)any, Pacilic Steam Navigation Companj-, Inman Steamship 

 Company, Cunard Steamship Company, California and Mexico Steam- 

 ship Company, and Panama Pailroad Company. To this list must be 

 added several other lines which have granted similar facilities during 

 the past year, namely, the Mexican Steamship Company, Union Pacific 

 liaiiroad. United States and Brazil Steamshij) Company, North German 

 Lloyd, (Baltimore line,) and the Atlantic Mail Steamship Company. 



Acknowledgments are also due for fiivors rendered iu connection with 

 foreign exchanges to E. J. Davison, esq., Argentine consul; Jose I. San- 

 chez, esq., consul of Venezuela; Seiior B. Blanco, consul-general of Gua- 

 temala; L. H. J. dAguiar, consul-general of Brazil; R. C. Burlage, con- 

 sul-general of Netherlands; Hon. E. Gutierez, minister from Costa Rica; 

 to the American Board of Commissionersof Foreign Missions ; Real Socie- 

 dad Economica, Havana; Board of Foreign Missions, New York; Amer- 

 ican Colonization Society, Washington ; Society of Geography and Sta- 

 tistics, Mexico; University of Chili; Bataviaasche Genootschap, Java; 

 In.stitute of History, Geography, and Ethnology, of Rio Janeiro. 



The Institution frequently receives applications from foreign govern- 

 ments and societies for official publications of the States or general gov- 

 ernment relative to certain branches of i)olitical economy, statistics, 

 education, &c. Daring the last year a request of this kind was received 

 from the Belgian government, desiring us to i^rocure all the publications 

 of the States in regard to public schools. Li answer to our circular ask- 

 ing for these documents, a large and valuable collection was received, 

 for which the thanks of the Institution were returned to the following- 

 persons, namely: to A. Rogers, second auditor of Virginia; T. Jordan, 

 secretary of state, Pennsylvania; S. C. Jackson, assistant secretary 

 Board of Educa.ion, Massachusetts; J. A. Morris, school commissioner, 

 Ohio; N. Bateuian, superintendent education, Illinois; C. J. Hoadley, 

 state librarian, Connecticut; F.Rodman, secretary of state, Missouri ; 

 R. A. Barker, secretary of state, Kansas; Ed. AVright, secretary of 

 state, Iowa; C. W. Wright, secretary of state, Delaware; J. E. Tenney, 

 secretary of state, Michigan ; and the secretary of state, Wisconsin. 



Another application of a similar character was received liom the gov- 

 ernment of Norway for the publications of the United States relative to 

 military affairs, which, on being referred to the heads of departments 

 and bureaus, secured a large number of the desired publications. Ac- 

 knowledgments for these favors are due to General E. D. Townsend, 

 adjutant general; General A. A. Humphreys, chief engineer United 



