718 HISTORY OF THE SMITHSONIAN EXCHANGES. 



Volnmcs. 



H. Cowpcrtliwaito & Co., Philadelphia 10 



U. Hunt & Son, Philadelphia 12 



E. C. & J. Biddle, Philadelphia _ 12 



A. S. Davis & Co. , Boston 6 



Sargent, Wilson & Hinckle, Cincinnati 33 



Professor Laboulaye, in acknowledging the receipt of these 174 vol- 

 umes, says : " These books form the admiration of all who take an interest 

 in education, and I hope that Franco will jirofit by this example. We 

 have excellent things at home by which you in turn might profit, but 

 we have seen nothing comparable to your readers, your object lessons, 

 your graphics, and your geographical series." 



The Institution in like manner frequently received applications from 

 foreign governments and societies for official publications of the States, 

 of general government, relative to certain branches of political economy, 

 stiitistics, education, &c. During the year 18G8 a request of this kind 

 was received from the Belgian Government for all the publications of 

 the States in regard to public schools. 



In answer to a circular asking for these documents, a large and valua- 

 ble collection was received, for which the thanks of the Institution were 

 returned to the following persons : A. Eogers, second auditor of Virginia; 

 T. Jordan, secretary of state, Pennsylvania; S. C. Jackson, assitant 

 secretary board of education, Massachusetts; J. A. Morris, school com- 

 missioner, Ohio; jN". Bateman, sui^erintendent of education, Illinois; 0. 

 J. Hoadley, state librarian, Connecticut; F. Eodman, secretary of state, 

 ]\Iissouri ; E. A. Barker, secretary of state, Kansas ; Ed. Wright, secre- 

 tary of state, Iowa; C. W. Wright, secretary of state, Delaware; J. E. 

 Tenney, secretary of state, Michigan, and the secretary of state, Wis- 

 consin. 



Another application of a similar character was received from the Gov- 

 ernment of Norway for the publications of the United States relative to 

 militarj^ affairs, which, on being referred to the heads of departments 

 and bureaus, secured a large number of the desired publications. Ac- 

 knowledgments for these favors were made to General E. D. Townsend, 

 Adjutant-General; General A. A. Humphreys, Chief Eagineer, United 

 States Army; Surgeon-General Barnes; Paymaster-General Brice; Gen- 

 eral Dyer, Chief of Ordnance; Commodore Jenkins, Chief of Bureau of 

 Ordnance and Hydrography, Navy Department ; General Myer, Chief 

 Signal Officer. 



For official co-operation with the Institution in its plans for the pro- 

 motion of knowledge, and imi)ortaut assistance rendered, besides the 

 foregoing, may be mentioned Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of 

 State; Hon, Hugh McCullough, Secretary of the Treasury ; Hon. Horace 

 Capron, Commissioner of Agriculture ; General Meigs, Quartermaster- 

 General; Mr. Spofford, Librarian of Congress ; Professor J. H. C. Coffin, 

 Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac, and Commodore Sands, of the 

 National Observatory, 



