98 KEPORT ON EXCHANGES. 



In 18G9 tbe Uuiversity of Melbourne, Victoria, offered to receive and 

 distribute exchanges for Australia and ^ew Zealand, and a bureau of 

 international exchanges was established by the Government of the United 

 States of Colombia in Bogota. 



In 1871 the following were added to the list of Smithsonian exchange 

 agencies : 



L. Watkins & Co., St. Petersburg, for Russia. 



Eoyal Academy of Sciences, Lisbon, for Portugal. 



Royal Academy of Sciences, Madrid, for Spain. 



Parliamentary Library, Wellington, for New Zealand. 



Mr. William Wesley, London, England, for the English colonies in 

 Asia and Africa. 



In 1873 the Royal Institute of Milan intrusted Mr. Ulrico Hoepli, of 

 Milan, with the work of exchanges, and he assumed the duties of the 

 Smithsonian agency. 



In 1874 Prof. E. H. von Baumhauer, of the Scientific Institute of Har- 

 lem, offered his services for Holland, which were accepted by the Insti- 

 tution. 



In 1870 therepresentativesof the various Australian colonial govern- 

 ments, at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, arranged for dis- 

 tributing and collecting agencies in their colonies: IS'ew South Wales, 

 New Zealand, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, and Victoria, 

 respectively. 



The Eidgenossensche Bundes-Canzlei, Bern, Switzerland; 



The Museo Nacioual, Mexico City, Mexico; 



The Universidad, Santiago, Chili ; 



The ]Museo Publico, Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic ; 



The Minister of foreign affairs, Port au Prince, Hay ti ; 



The Minister of foreign affairs, Tokio, Japan ; 



The University of Caracas, Venezuela; 

 as recipients of Government exchanges, assumed the duties of col- 

 lecting and distributing Smithsonian exchanges. 



Dr. Felipe Poey, for the university at Havana, Cuba, and the Geo- 

 logical Survey of Canada, in Montreal, volunteered their services as 

 agents. 



In 1877 the agency in Lisbon, Portugal, was changed from the Royal 

 Academy of Sciences to the Escola Polytechnica, and the Bibliotheque 

 Nationale, of Athens, Greece, as recipient of the official publications, 

 assumed the duties of a distributing agency. 



In 1878 the Smithsonian Institution availed itself, in its scientific 

 and literary intercourse with Belgium, France, Brazil, Italy, Russia, 

 and Switzerland, of the following agencies, appointed by their res])ect- 

 ive governments in compliance with the stipulattons of the exchange 

 convention of Paris, in 1875 : 



Belgium, Commission Beige des I^changes Inte-jruationaiix:, Brussels. 



Brazil, Brazilian Oommissiouj etc». Rio Janeiro. 



