Librarian Cyrus Adler Represents the United States Government at the second Conference on an International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, 1898
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PrintSmithsonian Librarian Cyrus Adler and Secretary Samuel P. Langley are appointed delegates to a Conference on an International Catalogue of Scientific Literature in London to be held on July 12, 1898. The conference was postponed until October 11 and the Secretary returned to the United States in September to attend to his official duties at the Institution. Adler stayed on to attend the conference and upon his return, reported on the conference to Secretary of State John Hay in a letter published in the Smithsonian Institution Annual Report for 1899.
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October 11, 1898
London, England