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The Smithsonian Institution to Dr. von Tavera, Imperial and Royal Ann- 

 trian envoy extraordinary. 



Wastiinoton, D. C, May 20, 1887. 



Sir : Keferrinji;- to previous correspondence on the subject, I have 

 tlie boTior to submit a copy of tbe bill of ladin<>-, per Italian bark Pep- 

 pino Mignano, for the twenty seven cases of official i)ublicatious 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 1 108-1194:, and the freight on the same has 

 been prepaid by us to Trieste, as per agreement. 

 1 have the honor, etc., 



S. P. 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 2eth 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, 



Mijiister. 



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, on 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 lie- 

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

 Washington, 1882, pp. 58-59.) 



By some inexplicable oversight this subject was completely 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 ])ortion, and which terminated in the trans- 



