604 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 
secretary of the chambers of agriculture, London; Von H. Blenck, 
director of the imperial bureau of statistics, Berlin; Dr. Karl Theo- 
dor von Inama-Sternegg, chief of the imperial statistical commis- 
sion, Vienna. The late lamented vice-president of the International 
Institute, whose death has been recently announced, Dr. Franz 
Xavier von Neumann-Spallart, of the Imperial University and other 
institutions of Austria, was also assiduous in his efforts to facilitate 
the investigation in Vienna. 
The information thus obtained, and the publications filed for ref- 
erence, will prove of great advantage in international comparisons. 
The work of the International Institute, in collecting and co-ordi- 
nating data for uniform international statements, is continued ad 
interim through committees in various specific lines of investigation 
and must result inagreat advantage to agricultural, commercial, and 
scientific education throughout the world. In this work the United 
States should accept its full quota of effort and reap its fair propor- 
tion of advantage. 
J. R. DoDGE, 
Statistician. 
Hon. NORMAN J. COLMAN, 
Commissioner. 
