This section is from the book "Scientific American Reference Book. A Manual for the Office, Household and Shop", by Albert A. Hopkins, A. Russell Bond. Also available from Amazon: Scientific American Reference Book.
Feeling that a large majority of our readers may not have access to the sources of information from which the following data are drawn, we take the liberty of presenting them with the most interesting facts concerning the origin and composition of some of the International Institutions and Bureaus in which the United States as a power, and we as a people, are interested.
 
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