LIBRARY 

 NEW-YORK 



LETITR OF TRANSMITTAL. botanical 



QAROEN. 



Office of Experiment Stations, 



Washington, D. C, March 12, 1906. 

 Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith the annual report of 

 the Office of Experiment Stations, the publication of which is author- 

 ized by joint resolution of the Fifty-eighth Congress, second session. 

 This includes a report on the work and expenditures of the agricul- 

 tural experiment stations established under the act of Congress of 

 March 2, 1887, for the fiscal j^ear ended June 30, 1905, in compliance 

 with the following provision of the act making appropriations for 

 this Department for the said fiscal year : 



The Secretary of Agriculture shall prescribe the form of the annual financial 

 statement required by section three of the said act of March second, eighteen 

 hundred and eighty-seven, shall ascertain whether the expenditures under the 

 appropriation hereby made are in accordance with the provisions of the said 

 act, and shall make report thereon to Congress. 



Very respectfully, 



A. C. True, Director. 

 Hon. James Wilson, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



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