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AuT. 10. TIio orgauizatiou Lerctol'oie cxistint;; in the "OIHcofor the Deposit and 

 Distributiou of Publicatioiiis" shall I'eiuaiu in force so far as it is uofc iiicousisteut 

 with the preseDt. 



AiiT. 11. Tlie present regulations shall he coinnumicated to all interested and the 

 chiei' of the " Ottice for the Deposit and Distribution of Publications" is authorized 

 to order it to be printed in suitable form. 



E. Wilde. 

 Attest : 



Juan IgarzxIBAl. 



Ill a second letter of the same date (l)ctober UO, 18S5) l\lr. (hitierez 

 aiiuounces the seiidiiiy; of publications. "A delay was caused," lie con- 

 tinued, "by the difficulties inherent in a newly created oflice ; jnore- 

 over, I desire to make the sending;' of some importance to corresfiond in 

 a measure with your kindness." 



On the 2()th December, 1885, the Secretary of the Institution replied 

 to Mr. Gutierez : 



Sir : 1 have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communi- 

 cations of October UO, 1885, and to say that we await with i)leasure the 

 receipt of the important sending to which you refer, on the part of the 

 Argentine Kepublic, in return for the official publications of the United 

 States Government, of which two sets have been contributed to Buenos 

 Ayres, one for the Government of the Eepublic, and one lor the govern- 

 ment of the Province. 



1 am, your obedient servant, 



S. F. Baird. 



CORRESPONDENCE WITH AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. 



F7^o}ii the Smithsonian Institution^ October 12,1885,^0 Count Lippe Weiss 

 enfeU, charge d'affaires ofAustria-Hungarij. 



Sir : On October 9, 18S1, Mr. George H. Boehmer, a delegate of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, the authorizedagent of the Government of the 

 United States, had the honor of being introduced by the United States 

 embassador in Vienna, to his excellency the Gount Szogyenyi, tirst 

 section chief in the I. B. foreign office, for the purpose of arranging for 

 an exchange of official public documents between the Government of the 

 United States and the Imperial Government of Austria. 



His excellency the Gount Szogyenyi being favorably impressed with 

 the proposition of such exchange placed the preliminary steps of ar- 

 rangements into the hands of M. de Plason, a councilor in the foreign 

 oftice with whom the Smithsonian representative was placed in commu- 

 nication. After various consultations with this gentleman, Mr. Boehmer 

 was oflicially introduced by the foreign office to the chiefs of the vari- 

 ous departments of the Imperial Grovernment, most of whom were fav- 

 orably inclined conditionally to enter into an exchange on the proposed 

 basis. 



The exchange proposed b^" the Smithsonian Institution includes all 

 publications made by Congressional order since January 1, 1808, and 

 comprises the parliamentary proceedings, projects at law, reports, and 

 scientific works of the departments and bureaus of the Government, 



