HISTOEY OF THE SMITHSONIAN EXCHANGES. 753 



[Inclosurc.'] 



Washington, October 22, 18G7. 



Sir : With reference to your note of the loth of June, addressed to 

 the late Sir Frederick Bruce, inclosing a memorandum of Prof. 

 Joseph Henry, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, relative to 

 an exchange of United States official documents for those of other 

 countries, I have the honor to inform you that, the subject having 

 been duly brought to the notice of my government, I have been in- 

 structed by Lord Stanley, Her Majesty's princii)al secretary of state 

 for foreign affairs, to communicate to you the suggestions which have 

 been made by the lords commissioners of Her Majesty's treasury in 

 regard to the manner in which the proposed exchange should be car- 

 ried out. 



The lords commissioner of Her Majesty's treasury readily acknowledge 

 the advantages of an exchange of copies of official documents between 

 Her Majesty's Government and that of the United States, and are quite 

 ready to give effect to the act of Congress referred to in the memoran- 

 dum of Professor Henry, which was inclosed in your note of June 13. 

 They suggest that the list of official documents prepared by the comp- 

 troller of the stationery office (a copy of which is herein inclosed) 

 should be transmitted to you for the information of the Government of 

 the United States, with an intimation that they will be prepared to 

 give directions that a copy of the books therein enumerated, or any 

 other official documents which may be named, shall be delivered to the 

 agent of the United States, and that Her Majesty's minister at Wash- 

 ington be requested to obtain from the Government of the United States 

 a list of corresponding official publications. 



The lords commissioners of Her Majesty's treasury have, however, 

 ascertained from the British admiralty that copies of the charts and 

 publications of that department are already sent, annually, to the sec- 

 retary of the United States Coast Survey and the Bui'eau of Il^avigation, 

 and selections to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, 



sir, your most obedient, humble servant, 

 Francis Clare Ford. 



[The Government of Colombia to the U. S. Legation.] 

 [Translation.] 



Department of the Interior and Foreign Eelations, 



Bogota, November 7, 1867. 

 To Hon. General Peter J. Sullivan, 



Minister Resident of the United States of America^ &c.: 

 Sir : In due time I had the honor of receiving your excellency's very 

 attentive communication inclosing a letter from Mr. Joseph Henrv, of 

 S. Mis. 109 48 



