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BUREAU 
VOOR 
H ANDELSINLICHTIN GEN A M s t e r d a m, 
(Gesticht op mitiatief der M'J van Nijverheid% 
DIRECTEUR : 
O. KAMERLINGH ONNES. 
Commercial Intelligence Office 
AMSTERDAM (Holland). 
We have the honour to inform you that the Commercial Intelligence Office 
has been opened at the end of September. With regard to its aim we refer to 
undo mentioned extract from the statutes, and would request you to favor us 
with such publications, reports, and statistical matter, which, when brought to the 
knowledge of the visitors of the Bureau, will in your opinion increase the 
commercial intercourse between your Country and Holland and its Colonies. 
Soliciting the favor of your reply with such suggestions as may lead to a 
further development of this Institution, 
We remain, Sir, 
Yours respectfully 
Commercial Intelligence Office 
for The Board of Directors , 
O. Kamerlingh Onnes, 
Manager. 
Extract from Statutes, 
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Art. i. Lhe Commercial Intelligence Office (founded at the initiative of the „Maatschappij van 
Nijverheid”) established at Amsterdam, purposes the promotion of the foreign interests of Dutch Commerce, 
Industry, Agriculture, Fishery and Shipping, in relation to other Countries, by giving information of a 
practical nature to the public. /The office enjoys the cooperation of the Colonial Museum at Haarlem, 
including the Laboratory attached to that Institution, and has the use as a loan from the Museum of such 
objects as are considered by the directors of the latter to be of use to the Bureau at Amsterdam. 
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JP.t.O. 
