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Rew. The Committee held three meetings, and received 

 communications describing the systems of corn returns in 

 France, Germany, and the United Kingdom respectively. 

 It was resolved to obtain information from the United States 

 and Canada as to official returns of prices in those countries. 

 A suggestion was made that the various governments should 

 be asked to collect and publish returns on a uniform plan, 

 and M. Tisserand submitted a draft form for this purpose, 

 which was provisionally approved. 



A report was presented by M. Raffavolich from the Com- 

 mittee on Bounties and Subventions. Enquiries had been 

 addressed to the different governments and a certain amount 

 of information received. It was resolved to continue the 

 inquiry, and to request the various governments each to 

 publish a statistical account of the bounties or subventions 

 which they had granted, or now grant, to agriculture, 

 industry, commerce, and shipping. 



Mr. Rew, as Chairman of the Committee on International 

 Fishery Statistics, presented a preliminary report. The 

 Committee was re-appointed and requested to continue its 

 inquiries. 



In the fourth section two valuable reports were presented — 

 (1) on a vocabulary of the terms of political economy and 

 statistics and (2) on a technological dictionary, in three 

 languages, of the names of industries and professions. A 

 copy of the first edition of the last-named work, which has 

 been prepared by the French Government, with the aid of a 

 Committee of the Institute, was presented. 



A suggestion for the establishment of an International 

 Statistical Office and the publication by the Institute of a 

 periodical statistical bulletin was brought forward by Dr. 

 Van der Borght and discussed at two meetings of the general 

 assembly. The proposal was referred for examination to a 

 special Committee, consisting of twenty-one members, repre- 

 senting fourteen countries, the British representatives being 

 Sir H. Llewellyn Smith and Mr. Rew. 



