1806 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE. 
December 6, 1897—House. 
Estimates for 1899. i 
_ State Department: For the purpose of carrying out on the part of 
the United States the recommendation of the International Conference — 
on a Catalogue of Scientific Literature, held in London in July, 1896, 
$10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the expense of 
clerk hire and the other expenses incident to the work of cataloguing 
the scientific publications of the United States, the same to be expended 
under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 
Nore (from letter of the Secretary of State, Jonn SHerMAN).—I have submitted 
under this head an item appropriating $10,000, or so much thereof as may be 
necessary, for the purpose of carrying out on the part of the United States the 
recommendation of the International Conference on a Catalogue of Scientific Litera- 
ture and for the expense of clerk hire and the other expenses incident to the work 
of cataloguing the scientific publications of the United States, the same to be expended _ 
under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The importance 
and necessity of this appropriation are fully shown by the letter of September 16, 
1897, from the Acting Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, House Doc. No. 105, 
Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, and the report upon the conference by Dr. 
Cyrus Adler, which I submit as annexes to this letter. 
December 5, 1898—House. 
Estimates for 1900. 
State Department: For the purpose of carrying out on the part of — 
the United States the recommendation of the International Conference — 
on a Catalogue of Scientific Literature, held in London,.in July, 1896, 
$10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the expense of 
clerk hire and the other expenses incident to the work of cataloguing ~ 
the scientific publications of the United States, the same to be expended 
under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 
Note (from letter of the Secretary of State, Jonn Hay).—I have submitted an 
item of $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of carry- 
ing out on the part of the United States the recommendation of the International 
Conference on a Catalogue of Scientific Literature, and for the expense of clerk hire — 
and the other expenses incident'to the work of cataloguing the scientific publications — 
of the United States, the same to be expended under the direction of the Secretary 
of the Smithsonian Institution. ° The importance and necessity of this appropriation 
are fully shown by the letter of September 16, 1897, from the acting secretary of the — 
Smithsonian Institution (House Doc. No. 105, Fifty-fourth Congress, second session), 
and the report upon the conference by Dr. Cyrus Adler, which I submit as annexes — 
to this letter. The preparation of the catalogue is to begin on January 1, 1900, and 
if this Government is to participate therein it will be necessary that appropriate 
action to that end be taken by Congress at its forthcoming session. 
July 7, 1898. 
Deficiency act for 1898, ete. 
For expenses of a delegate to the International Conference on a Cata-_ 
logue of Scientific Literature to be held at London during the present — 
year, not exceeding $500. 
(Stat., XXX, 653.) 
