Jomini to Boker, July 23, 1875

Baron Jomini to Mr. Boker.

Mr. Minister: The French embassy has just informed the ministry of foreign affairs that the meeting of the statistical congress, which was to take place at Pesth, in 1875, is postponed till 1876, and that consequently Mr. Semenow, the director of the Russian statistical committee, and president of the permanent statistical commission, has proposed to take the opportunity offered by the session of the congress of geographical sciences to call a meeting at Paris of the permanent commission, which held its sitting last year at Stockholm.

The French government having agreed to this proposition, the meeting of the permanent commission will take place on the 11th of August of the present year, immediately after the closing of that of the congress of geographical sciences, which will be opened on the 1st of August next, and will last ten days.

Mr. Semenow has been informed of this by telegraph, in order that he may be able to call together the delegates of the different states in good time.

In bringing the preceding to your knowledge, Mr. Minister, I have the honor to beg you to be good enough to notify the Government of the United States of America of the same, and to ask them to make their necessary dispositions on the subject.

Accept, Mr. Minister, the assurance of my most distinguished consideration.