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- of the Statistical Society of London. g active members. 
sh participated, representing the countries indicated: 
> Great Britain.—Alfred, Kdward Bateman, Maj. Patrick George vied 
~.-. Craigie, Dr. Leone Levi, John Biddulph Martin, Dr. Frederic John nih: 
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“.° Mouat, Richard Henry Inglis Palgrave, Sir Rawson W. Rawson, 
o.'. France.—Dr. Jacques Bertillon, Emile Cheysson, Alfred de Foville; 
-. Octave Greard, Emile Levasseur, Toussaint Loua, Leon Say, Dr. 
Mayr, Dr. Adolph Wagner. 
‘leti, Joseph Korosi, Dr. Oscar von Meltzl, Dr. Franz Xavier Ritter 
a ous ee eae Dr. Karl Theodor von Inama-Sternegg, Max 
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- Switzerland.—Guillaume Edmond Milliet. 
- Correnti, Giacomo Costa, Giovanni Battista Favero, Dr. Carlo Fran- 
-... torio Hllena. 
~~ Denmark.—Marius Gad, Dr. William Scharling. 
_ Russia.—Fr. von Jung Stilling, Nicolas Troinitsky. - _ 
.. Norway.—Dr. Ole Jacob Broch. . 
- . Spain.—Don Carlo de Ibanez. 
~~ -. United States of America.—J. R. Dodge. 
_. -There were also present and participating, by official invitation, | 
the Duke of Torlonia, mayor of Rome, twenty-two members of the 
Italian Conseil Superieur de Statistique, professors of the University. 
y of Rome, directors of several branches of the imperial statistical serv- 
© ice, and the minister of Brazil at Rome; in all, thirty-four persons. 
The first meeting of the first session of the institute, held in the 
palace of the minister of finance, was opened at 10o0’clock a. me, Tues- 
-¢ day, April 12. The president, on taking the chair, in behalf of the 
~ ally in providing a place of meeting in one of its most beautiful 
palaces, and proposed to the assembly to constitute M. Grimaldi, 
- minister of agriculture, industry, and commerce, by acclamation, am 
M. Magliani, minister of finance. M. Grimaldithen made an address 
of welcome, in which he referred to the dependence of politics upon 
science, and the aid of statistics in conferring significance and ele- 
vation upon the endeavors of statesmanship, and thanked the body 
' for its coming to offer scientific contributions in aid of practical pol- 
i, ‘itics. In this connection he said: 
whe. ‘Thus; gentlemen, between your studies and the labors of the politician there ex 
ists a close bond. Statisticians and statesmen serve the same cause by different 
-* © wneans. Politics (I speak of the interior administration of civil communities) finds 
|. in statistics a valuable auxiliary, often a guide. It owes it much; it will owe lt 
yet more, according as statisticians extend the scope of their researches and perfect" 
, the methods of their investigations. Therefore, gentlemen, the Italian Government 
is honored in the choice you have made of Rome for holding the first session of the 
institute, and receives you with a cordial sympathy. For a long time Italy has ap- 
-prehended the rdle of statistics and the double interest that its works have for 
science and administration. She hasprovedit. You have been witness of the efforts 
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Germany.—Dr. Ernst Kngel, Dr. Wilhelm Lexis, Dr. George Tae a 
_ Austria-Hungary.—Dr. Josef von Jekelfalussy, Dr. Ohiaties ee. 3 
Ttaly.—Gerolamo Boccardo, Luigi Bodio, Leoni Carpi, 8. E. Cesare . ? 
- cesco Ferraris, Major General Annibale Ferrero, Fedele Lampertico, _ 
- Luigi Luzzati, Agostmo Magliani, Angelo Messadaglia, Carlo De 
~ Negri,, Maffeo Pantaleoni, Luigi Perozzo, Dr. Enrico Raseri, Vit- 
institute thanked the Italian Government for its hospitality, especi-_ 
,. honorary member of the institute, an honor already conferred upon 
