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tion of tlieir efforts to dispose of all the accumulations of the preceding year and to 

 keep up with the added volume of work, and I beg leave to call to your notice the 

 careful attention to the interests of the Institution on the part of its special agents 

 abroad, Dr. Felix Flugel, in Leipsic, and Messrs. William Wesley & Son, in London. 

 Grateful acknowledgments are also due to the following transportation companies 

 and others for their liberality in granting the privilege of free freight or in other- 

 wise assisting in the transmission of exchange parcels and boxes, while to other 

 firms thanks are due for reduced rates of transportation in consideration of the dis- 

 interested services of the Institution in the diffusion of knowledge: 



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

 INDEBTED FOR SPECIAL COURTESIES. 



Royal Portuguese consul-general, New York. 



American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Boston. 



Anchor Steamship Line (Henderson & Bro., agents), New York. 



Atlas Steamship Company (Pim, Forwood & Co.), New York. 



Bailey, H. B., & Co., New York. 



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



Boulton, Bliss & Dallett, New York. 



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



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



Baltazzi, X., consul-general for Turkey, New York. 



Columbian Line (Stamford Parry, Herron & Co., agents), New York.. 



Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (A. Forget, agent), New York. 



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



Espriella, Justo R. de la, consul-general for Chile, New York. 



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



Hensel, Bruckmann & Lorbacher, New York. 



Consul-general tor Uruguay, Baltimore, Md. 



Muiioz y Espriella, New York. 



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



Netherlands-American Steam Navigation Company (W. H. Vanden Toorn, agent), 



New York. 

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



Baltimore). 

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

 Pacific Mail Steamship Company (H. J. Bullay, superintendent), New York. 

 Pioneer Line (R. W. Cameron & Co.), New York. 

 Perry, Ed., & Co., New York. 



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

 Red Star Line (Peter Wright & Sons, agents), New York and Philadelphia. 

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

 Royal Danish consul, New York. 

 Ruiz, Domingo L., consul-general for Ecuador. 



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

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

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



LIST OF THE CORRESPONDENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN THROUGH WHOM INTERNA- 

 TIONAL EXCHANGES ARE TRANSMITTED. 



Algeria: Bureau Francais des Echanges Internationaux, Paris, France. 



Argentina: Museo Nacional, Buenos Ayres. 



Austria-Hungary: Dr. Felix Flugel, Schenkendorf-Strasse 9, Leipzig, Germany. 



Brazil : Bibliotheca Nacional, Rio Janeiro. 



Belgium: Commission des Echanges Internationaux, Rue du Muse"e, No. 5, Brussels. 



Bolivia: University, Chuquisaca. 



British America: McGill College, Montreal, and Geological Survey Office, Ottawa. 



British Colonies: Crown Agents for the Colonies, London, England. 



