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The Smithsonian Institution to Dr. von Tavern, Imperial and Royal Aus- 

 trian envoy extraordinary. 



Washington, D. C, May 2G, 1887. 



Sir : Referriug to previous correspoudeuce ou the subject, I have 

 the honor to submit a copy of the bill of lading-, per Italian bark Pep- 

 pino Migjiano, for the twenty seven cases of official publications ad- 

 dressed by the Smithsonian Institution, on behalf of the Government 

 of the United States, to the Imperial Government at Vienna. 



The cases are numbered 1168-1194, and the freight ou the same has 

 been prepaid by us to Trieste, as per agreement. 

 I have the honor, etc., 



S. F. Langley, 

 Acting Secretary. 



The Imperial and Royal Austrian envoy extraordinary to the acting 

 Secretary Smithsonian Institution. 



Washington, D. C., May 28, 1887. 



Sir : I have the honor to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of 

 your letter dated 26th instant, by which you transmitted to me the bill 

 of lading for the twenty-seven cases of official publications addressed 

 by the Smithsonian Institution to the Imperial and Royal Govern- 

 ment. 



Very respectfully, yours, 



Tavera, 



Minister. 



EXCHANGES WITH PERU. 



On the 16th of May, 1867, the Smithsonian Institution, as the agent 

 of the United States Government for the exchange of official public 

 documents with foreign nations as provided for by act of March 2, 1867, 

 invited, among others, the Government of Peru to participate in the 

 proposed exchange. The proposition was favorably received, and the 

 acceptance, ou the part of the Peruvian Government, expressed in a let- 

 ter emanating from the foreign office in Lima, Peru, on the 30th De- 

 cember, 1867, and transmitted to the Smithsonian Institution through 

 the United States Department of State. (See Smithsonian Annual Re- 

 port for 1881, p. 760, 761 ; also History of Smithsonian Exchanges, 

 Washington, 1882, pp. 58-59.) 



By some inexplicable oversight this subject was comj^letely lost sight 

 of until in the beginning of the present fiscal year, when it was again 

 brought to notice by Mr. Elmore, then the representative of the Peru- 

 vian Government at Washington, and chief clerk of the Peruvian for- 

 eign office in 1867, at the time of the acceptance of the proposition on 

 the part of his Government. 



In consequence relations were at once established, of which the fol- 

 lowing correspondence is a portion, and which terminated in the trans- 



