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Journal of the Statistical Society of London Year 1858 Vol. 21

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Excerpt from Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 21: Year 1858

At the close of the sessions, Dr. Farr, the delegate of the British Government, proposed that it should be referred, as on the previous occasion, to the Committee of Organisation, to name the place for meeting of the next Congress. The motion having been carried, he then, on the part of the British Government, in a pithy and eloquent Speech gave a formal invitation for its assembling in London in 1859. (see Appendix B.) The invitation was received with loud applause from all parts of the crowded hall. We may hope that Great Britain will keep pace with Belgium, France, and Austria, not merely in the cordial and liberal reception of the delegates of foreign governments, but in profiting by the advancement in Static tical Science, to which these great meetings have already given rise. It would be an apt occasion to set our house in order, and to bring under some special government department the publication of the valuable, but incongruous statistical documents so frequently put forth to the public. There is no country in the world where questions of so much importance have been discussed within the last few years as in this - none, in which such novel and grand concep tions have been put into practice - none, in which the public has taken so direct and ardent an interest in accumulating the materials for re?ection, and for the utilization of the results. Witness the improvements in our Census and population statistics - the records of our Commerce, of our Railways, of our public institutions; witness the exertions and the writings of the Members of this Society, and of other private societies of a similar kind. All that we want is unity, harmony, combination in the labours of individuals, and in the Statistical Reports of the Government. Any e?'ort to secure these important results will be well seconded by the cc-operation, and rewarded by the applause of the country.

 

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Journal of the Statistical Society of London Year 1858 Vol. 21

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