Geo. H. Boker to Boker, August 5, 1875
No. 513. Mr. Boker to Mr. Fish.
No. 7.]
Sir: I have the honor to inclose to you a copy and a translation of a note received from the imperial foreign office on the subject of a meeting of the permanent commission of the statistical congress.
At the request of the government of Hungary, on account of the elections in that country, the meeting of the statistical congress, which should have taken place in Pesth this year, has been postponed till 1876.
It has therefore been thought advisable to call an extra meeting of the permanent commission for the purpose of preparing the work for t le next session of the congress.
As a considerable number of the members of this commission were in Paris attending the congress of the geographical sciences, with the consent of the French government this extra meeting of the permanent commission on statistics has been fixed for the 11th of August at Paris.
It would be desirable, of course, that all the members of the commission should be present; but as, owing to the lateness of this announcement, it would be impossible for Mr. Young, who, I believe, is the American member of the commission, to reach Paris in time, I have thought it useless to telegraph to you on the subject.
I am, &c.