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Rh the United States, First and Second Quarters, 1883; 5, Labor in Foreign Countries, 1884 (3 vols.).

This Department has also made another series of contributions to social science through the publications of the Bureau of American Republics. This bureau was organized as the result of the effort to increase the trade between the United States and other American nations. Its publications consist of annual reports, monthly and special bulletins, and handbooks descriptive of foreign American countries, their resources, trade, wages, etc.

Still another series of publications of the State Department contains a vast deal of information which the student of social science finds valuable. As this department is the medium through which the United States is represented at foreign expositions, conventions, etc., there are published under its auspices many valuable reports of such gatherings in which this country has participated. Chief among these may be mentioned the reports of the American commissioners at the Paris expositions of 1867, 1878, and 1889, and the exposition at Vienna in 1873; the reports of the International Statistical Congress in London in i860 and in St. Petersburg in 1872. It has also published reports of various international monetary congresses, notably those of 1878 and 1892, and it was through the encouragement and support of the State Department that the late Dr. E. C. Wines was able to lead in the organization of the international prison congresses at London and Stockholm, congresses which are now held regularly and to which various states of our Union send their representatives.

The publications of these departments do not apply particularly to our subject, but under authority of Congress they have published the most valuable official records that have ever appeared relative to any war. These are the Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies in the War of the Rebellion, and a Compilation of the Official Records