Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1898

Mr. Sherman to Herr von Holleben.

Department of State,
Washington, April 11, 1898.

No. 37.]

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 7th instant, transmitting certain microscopic specimens prepared by the Imperial board of health at Berlin, and said to have been found in American fruit imported at Hamburg, and to be identical with the San Jose scale louse.

The matter has been referred to the Secretary of Agriculture.

Accept, etc.,

John Sherman.