Herr Von Holleben to Mr. Sherman.
Washington, April 7, 1898.
Mr. Secretary: With reference to your kind note of the 11th of February last, No. 21, and to the documents delivered in person to Assistant Secretary Cridler on the 24th of the same month, through Herr von Bruning, secretary of the embassy, relating to the San Jose scale louse, taken from shipments of fruit from the United States to Germany, I have the honor by direction of the Imperial chancellor to deliver to you in the accompanying casket three preparations made in the Imperial health office in Berlin of such specimens of the said insect as have been taken from American fruit in Hamburg.
The Imperial Government wishes by this means to furnish the evidence that the insect found in Hamburg is identical with the San Jose scale louse described by American investigators.
Accept, etc.,