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past year, but, althougli several attempts have been made through the .Japanese 

 minister to induce his Government to assume the distribution of miscellaneous pub- 

 lications, the effort has not yet met with success. 



The only countries with which exchange relations are at present entirely sus- 

 ;gended are those disturbed by strife, viz, Turkey, Greece, and Cuba. The exchange 

 of public documents with Turkey, however, has been reestablished, but, on account 

 of the difficulties in delivering consignments at Constantinople, the steamship com- 

 panies for the moment have declined to accejit freight for that port. 



The efficiency of the force of the Exchange Bureau, as well as its agents, Messrs. 

 William Wesley & Son, London, and Dr. Felix Fliigel, at Leipsic, is well established. 

 On account, however, of the increasing duties of the Leipsic agency, covering as it 

 does the territory of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan countries, and Switzer- 

 land, I would resjjectfuUy recommend that the territory so covered be subdivided 

 and that other agents be appointed, in order to avoid too much pressure at Leipsic, 

 which condition is liable to exist where so much is expected of a single agency. 



The following list represents the names of companies and other mediums of trans- 

 portation that continue to contribute free freight on exchanges or lend their aid in 

 the transportation and delivery of such consignments. 



LIST OF SHIPPING AGENTS AND CONSULS TO WHOM THE EXCHANGE SERVICE IS 

 INDEBTED FOK SPECIAL COURTESIES. 



American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Boston, Mass. 



Atlantic Transport Line, Baltimore, Md. 



Atlas Steamship Line (Pim, Forward & Co.), New York. 



Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, New York. 



Bors, C, consul-general for Sweden and Norway-, New York. 



Boultou, Bliss & Dallet, New York. 



Cakleron, Climaco, consul-general for Colombia, New York. 



Cameron, R. W., & Co., New York. 



Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, New York. 



Cunard Royal Mail Steamship Company (Vernon H. Brown & Co., agents), New York. 



Grace, W. R., & Co., New York. 



Hamburg-American Line (R. J. Cortis, manager), New York. 



Hensel, Bruckman & Lorbacher, New York. 



Murguiondo, Prudencio de, consul-general for Uruguay, Baltimore, Md. 



Navigazione Generale Italiana (Phelps Bros. &. Co.), New York. 



Netherlands American Line (W. H. Vanden Toorn, agent). New York. 



North German Lloyd Line. (Agents: Oelrichs & Co., New York; A. Schumacher & 



Co., Baltimore.) 

 Obarrio, Melchor, consul-general for Bolivia, New York. 

 Panama Railroad Steamship Company, New York. 

 Perry, Edward & Co., New York. 



Pomares, Mariano, consul-general for San Salvador, New York. 

 Red Star Line (International Navigation Company, agents), New York. 

 Rohl, C, consul-general for Argentina, New York. 

 Royal Danish consul, New York. 

 Royal Portuguese consul-general. New York. 



Stewart, Alexander, consul-general for Paraguay, Washington, D. C. 

 Toriello, Enrique, consul-geueral for Guatemala, New York. 

 Turkish legation, Washington, D. C. 

 White Cross Line (Funch, Edye & Co.), New York. 



The following is a list of the Smithsonian correspondents abroad acting as dis- 

 tributing agents, or receiving publications for transmission to the United States : 

 Algeria : Bureau Frangais des ^changes Internationaux, Paris, France. 

 Argentina : Museo Nacional, Buenos Ayres. 



