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SPECIAL REPORTS.
Report on the Organization op International Exhibition Commissions and Juries, with Especial Reference to the Vienna Universal Exhibition of 1873 .
By THOMAS C. ARCHER.
From the commencement of international exhibitions nothing has been more apparent than the necessity for well- organized commissions and juries, and success has always been in accordance with the careful and judicious selection of the chief persons to perform the functions of those two branches of the management.
The commissions here referred to are those which are instituted by the nations in whose territories the exhibitions are held, for the purpose of making the general arrangements, providing the necessary accommodations, and framing such regulations as will give confidence to the other nations of the world, that, in accepting their invitations to exhibit, their interests will be fairly studied and amply protected.
Another kind of commission has also been found to be essential to the success of any exhibition, and its constitution is also of great, if not vital, importance ; namely, the national commissions, or commissions appointed by the various exhibiting nations, the functions of which are, to take such steps in their individual countries, as will make known to their countrymen who are interested, all the advantages likely to accrue to those who agree to exhibit ; to make the exhibitors acquainted with all the rules and regulations of the exhibition ; to secure the safe transport of the exhibits ; to adjust the space allotted, and to keep, generally, a watchful care over the interests of their countrymen in all that relates to the exhibition wherever it may be held. Regarding these two