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PREFACE.
The first edition of this handbook, "Sveriges land och folk", was
published during the years 1898—1904; the cost was, in the main, defrayed by a
grant from the Riksdag. The Swedish Central Bureau of Statistics was
commissioned to carry out the work, and that body entrusted the
editorship to I)r Gustav Sundbärg, then Section Chief in the Bureau, later
professor at the University of Uppsala. Three issues of the work were
published: a French one, principally in view of the Paris Universal
Exposition of 1900, a Swedish one in 1901, and an English one in 1904.
A motion moved by K. A. Teng’dahl, in the Riksdag of 1910, as to the
advisability of bringing out a new edition, resulted in representations being
made to the Government that the matter should be taken under
consideration. The Central Bureau of Statistics was commissioned to deliberate the
matter, and on Aug. 29th, 1911, the Bureau reported that a new edition
was desirable.
After the Board of Trade, the Professors’ Council of the High School
of Commerce in Stockholm, the Committee for the 1914 Baltic Exhibition
at Malmö, and the Commercial Council had all expressed themselves to
the effect that a new edition was desirable, the Government proposed to
the Riksdag of 1912 the publication of a new edition of the handbook in
two issues, a Swedish one and an English one.
In the same Riksdag of 1912, too, the question was brought forward of a
German issue, chiefly in view of the 1914 Baltic Exhibition at Malmö, and
the Riksdag resolved to make a State grant for producing Swedish, English,
and German issues of the handbook. — The economic basis of the work has
subsequently been widened by generous contributions and interested support
of a number of private persons and institutions, among others, Consul
General Axel Ax:son Johnson and Consul Helge Ax:son Johnson, of
II—133179. Sweden. I.
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