Excerpt from Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Universal Exposition of 1889 at Paris, Vol. 1: Report of the Commissioner-General, With Accompanying Documents, Including Reports of Officers of the Commission, Official Regulations, Classification, Lists of Exhibitors, Awards, Etc By a note of April 6, 1887, the Republic of France, through its minister plenipotentiary at this capital, invited the Government of the United States to take part in an exposition of works of art and the products of manufactures and agriculture of all nations, to be held at Paris, commencing May 5, and closing October 31, 1889. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.