REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 13 



panies in granting the Institution free freight for its packages and boxes, 



which has existed for many years, still continues ; and it is my pleasant 



duty annually to renew the expressions of grateful acknowledgment for 



the generous policy which has so greatly favored and advanced the 



system of exchanges. The following is a list of the companies favoring 



the Institution with the concessions mentioned, and to whose offices I 



desire, on behalf of the Ee^euts, to return their hearty thanks. 



Allan Steamship Company (A. Schumacher & Co., agents), Baltimore. 



Anchor Steamship Line (Henderson & Brother, agents). New York. 



Atlas Steamship Company (Pim, Forwood & Co., agents), New York. 



Bailey, H. B., & Co., New York. 



Bixby, Thomas E., & Co., Boston, Mass. 



Borland, B. R., New York. 



Boulton, Bliss & Dallett, New York. 



Cameron, R. W., & Co., New York. 



Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (L. de Bebian, agent). New York. 



Cunard Royal Mail Steamship Line (Vernon H. Brown & Co., agents), 

 New York. 



Dennison, Thomas, New York. 



Florio Rubattino Line, New York. 



Hamburg American Packet Company (Kuuhardt & Co., agents), New 

 York. 



Inman Steamship Company, New York. 



Merchants' Line of Steamers, New York. 



MuEioz y Espriella, New York. 



Murray, Ferris & Co., New York. 



Netherlands American Steam Navigation Company (H. Cazaux, agent), 

 New York. 



New York and Brazil Steamship Company, New York. 



New York and Mexico Steamship Company, New York. 



North German Lloyd (agents, Oelrichs & Co., New York; A. Schu- 

 macher & Co., Baltimore). 



Pacific Mail Steamship Company, New York. 



Panama Railroad Company, New York. 



Red Star Line (Peter Wright & Sons, agents), Philadelphia and New 

 York. 



White Cross Line of Antwerp (Fuuch, Edye & Co., agents). New York. 



Wilson & Asmus, New York. 

 The thanks of the Institution are also due, and are hereby tendered, 



to the foreign ministers and consuls of the various Governments for 



their assistance in taking charge of the transmission of boxes to the 



countries which they respectively represent. 



Government Exchanges.— The Smithsonian Institution, as is well 

 known, has been made by law the agent of the United States Govern- 

 ment for conducting the international exchanges of public official docu- 

 ments between it and foreign Governments. By joint resolution of 



