LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. 
LAWRENCE, Kan., May 1, 1898. 
To his Excellency J. W. Leedy, Governor of Kansas : 
In accordance with the requirements of the act making ap- 
propriation for the maintenance of the Experimental Station at 
the University of Kansas for the promotion of experiments for 
the destruction of chinch-bugs by contagion or infection, I for- 
ward to you the following report of the results of the experi- 
ments for the year 1896—’97, with an itemized statement of the 
money expended in the, experiments. 
Yours respectfully, F, H. SNOW, 
Director of the Experimental Station. 
