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REPORT ON THE OPERATIONS OF EXCHANGES. 



Distribution of Government exchanges— Continned. 



Three Governments were added to the list during the year, namely: 



1. Hungary ; depositing the documents with the Priisidium des Konig. 

 Ungarischen Ministeriums, Budapest. 



2. United States of Colombia; books to be deposited in the National 

 Library, Bogota. 



3. East Indies; deposited with the Secretary of State for India, Cal- 

 cutta. 



The first instalments of IG boxes each were made to Hungary, June 

 10, 1882; Colombia, October 20, 1882; East India, October 20, 1882. 



In 1879 the French Commission of International Exchange requested 

 that an additional set of Government publications be sent to France, 

 to be distributed among the various Government departments and bu- 

 reaus, who in return were to furnish their publications for the use of the 

 United States Government Bureaus, while the original set was deposited, 

 together with its continuations, in the National Library. This practice, 

 however, has been abandoned now, at the request of the French com- 

 mission, and it has been suggested that, should the various Government 



