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thine the system, at least in its present dimensions ; and we embrace 

 this occasion again to express acknowledgments for the efficient aid 

 thus rendered to the cause of science and to the promotion of kindly 

 feeling between the United States and the other nations of the world. 

 The following are the companies to which special thanks are due, 

 namely, The Pacific Mail Steamship Company, North German Lloyd. 

 Hamburg American Steamship Company, General Transatlantic Steam- 

 ship Company, Pacific Steam Navigation Company, Inman Steamship 

 Company, Cunard Steamship Company, California and Mexico Steam- 

 ship Company, and Panama Railroad Company. To this list must be 

 added several other lines which have granted similar facilities during 

 the past year, namely, the Mexican Steamship Company, Union Pacific 

 Railroad, United States and Brazil Steamship Company, North German 

 Lloyd, (Baltimore line,) and the Atlantic Mail Steamship Company. 



Acknowledgments are also due for favors rendered in connection with 

 foreign exchanges to E. J. Davison, esq., Argentine consul; Jose I. San- 

 chez, esq., consul of Venezuela; Seiior B. Blanco, consul-general of Gua- 

 temala; L. H. J. dAguiar, consul-general of Brazil; B. C. Burlage, con- 

 sul-general of Netherlands ; Hon. E. Gutierez, minister from Costa Pica ; 

 to the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions ; Peal Socie- 

 dad Ecouomica, Havana; Board of Foreign Missions, New York; Amer- 

 ican Colonization Society, Washington ; Society of Geography and Sta- 

 tistics, Mexico; University of Chili; Bataviaasche Genootschap, Java; 

 Institute of History, Geography, and Ethnology, of Rio Janeiro. 



The Institution frequently receives applications from foreign govern- 

 ments and societies for official publications of the States or general gov- 

 ernment relative to certain branches of political economy, statistics, 

 education, &c. Daring the last year a request of this kind was received 

 from the Belgian government, desiring us to procure all the publications 

 of the States in regard to public schools. In answer to our circular ask- 

 ing for these documents, a large and valuable collection was received, 

 for which the thanks of the Institution were returned to the following 

 persons, namely: to A. Rogers, second auditor of Virginia; T. Jordan, 

 secretary of state, Pennsylvania; S. C. Jackson, assistant secretary 

 Board of Education, Massachusetts; J. A. Morris, school commissioner, 

 Ohio; N. Bateman, superintendent education, Illinois; C. J. Hoadley, 

 state librarian, Connecticut ; F. Rodman, secretary of state, Missouri ; 

 R. A. Barker, secretary of state, Kansas; Ed. Wright, secretary of 

 state, Iowa; C. W.Wright, secretary of state, Delaware; J. E. Tenney, 

 secretary of state, Michigan; and the secretary of state, Wisconsin. 



Another application of a similar character was received from the gov- 

 ernment of Norway for the publications of the United States relative to 

 military affairs, which, on being referred to the heads of departments 

 and bureaus, secured a large number of the desired publications. Ac- 

 knowledgments for these favors are due to General E. D. Townsend, 

 adjutant general; General A. A. Humphreys, chief engiueer United 



