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PREFACE.
On the strength of a bill brought in by Professor Ernst Carlson,
the Riksdag in 1898 granted a vote of credit for the compilation of
a Handbook of Statistics on the cultural and industrial conditions of
Sweden *— to be published in Swedish, English, and French. The King
having commissioned the Central Bureau of Statistics to carry out the
work, this Bureau left the editorship of it into my hands.
During the progress of the work, a more plentiful supply of illus
trations than originally intended was found desirable, and the means
granted not proving sufficient for the purpose, the necessary amount
was munificently donated by K. A. Wallenberg, Esq., Bank Director,
Stockholm.
Of the three editions of the work, the French one was published
in 1900 and partly distributed at the Paris Exhibition of that year.
The Swedish edition appeared in 1901. The working out and printing
of the English edition now laid before the publio has through sundry
unfavourable circumstances been considerably delayed, which, moreover,
occasioned the disadvantage of the statistical data not being in all
provinces the most recent obtainable. This fact need, however, not be
considered a serious inconvenience, for in a summary review like the
one here in question, a year or two cannot involve essential changes.
Of the most important new measures taken in the way of Legislation
and Administration, etc., and brought about while the work was passing
throngh the press, an account is given in the Appendix at the end. —
The Swedish edition was as a whole somewhat larger than the French
one, and the English edition has in its turn been not inconsiderably
amplified and supplemented.
In spite of a very considerable number of authors having furnished
articles, it has been attempted by the editor, as far as possible, to let
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