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LUIGI BODIO, a celebrated Italian statistician, was born at Milan on October 12, 1840. After serving as lecturer in economics in the Technical Schools of Leghorn, Milan and Venice, he was appointed first permanent secretary of the Central Office of Statistics and in 1878 its director. In 1885 he was elected secretary to the International Institute of Statistics and in 1905 director. In 1901 he was made a senator of Italy. His writings were numerous and varied, the most important being on external commerce (1862), statistics in relation to politics, economics and allied sciences (1869), movement of population hi Italy and other European States (1878) and Italian emigration (1894). He died on November 2, 1920.
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Luigi Bodio. Nature 146, 488 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146488c0
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