Ido language and likewise most rejected the recommendations of the 1907 Committee composed by 12 members. Zamenhof deferred to their judgment, although doubtful. Furthermore, controversy ensued when the "Ido project" was found to have been primarily devised by Louis de Beaufront, whom Zamenhof had chosen to represent Esperanto before the Committee, as the Committee's rules dictated that the creator of a submitted language could not defend it. The Committee's language was French and not everyone could speak in French. When the president of the Committee asked who was the author of Ido's project, Couturat, Beaufront and Leau answered that they were not.
Orgelbrand's Universal Encyclopedia (1859) the first edition of the years (1872-1876, 1877-1879, 1883-1884, 1898-1904) had a volume-reduced form. In 1984-1985, a reprint of the original version was published in Poland. The creators of the publication's content were many representatives of the Polish nineteenth-century intelligentsia. In entry to the first volume published in 1859, a list of authors of the encyclopedia has been published. It contained the following names: Adam Adamowicz, Jerzy Alexandrowicz, Władysław Ludwik Anczyc, Michał Baliński, Jan Baranowski, Sadok Barącz, Adam Bartoszewicz, Julian Bartoszewicz, Władysław Bentkowski, Feliks Berdau, Leopold Berkiewicz, Cezary Biernacki, Julian Bleszyński, Kazimierz Bujnicki, Ignacy Chodźko, Teofil Cichocki, Wojciech Cybulski, Wincenty