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appreciation and thanks for the assistance given farmers, horticulturists, 
planters, and scientific men by the liberal distribution of American 
research publications. 
In accordance with the request of the President and Council of the 
Royal Horticultural Society, which you have been kind enough to 
communicate, I shall take pleasure in forwarding this resolution to my 
Government. 
I am, Sir, 
Very respectfully, 
Your obedient servant, 
WuiteLaw REID. 
The Rev. W. Wilks, M.A., 
Secretary, Royal Horticultural Society, 
Vincent Square, Westminster, S.W. 
Department of Agriculture, Office of the Secretary, Washington, D.C., 
September 4, 1906. 
Dear Sir,—I am in receipt of the resolution passed by the members 
of the International Conference on Hybridisation and Plant-breeding 
relative to the publications of this Department. We appreciate very 
highly the estimate that the Conference places on the publications of this 
Department, and we are glad that they are useful to the agricultural 
interests outside of the United States. 
Thanking the Conference in behalf of the Department, I am, 
Very respectfully, 
JAMES WILSON, 
Secretary. 
The Rey. W. Wilks, 
Secretary, Royal Horticultural Society, 
Vincent Square, Westminster, S.W., London, England. 
American Embassy, London, September 8, 1906. 
Sir,—With reference to your letter of the 2nd ultimo inclosing a 
resolution passed by the members of the International Conference on 
Hybridisation and Plant-breeding assembled in the Hall of the Royal 
Horticultural Society of Great Britain, expressing to the President and 
the Secretary of Agriculture the appreciation of the members of the 
Conference of the aid given to agriculture and kindred sciences by the 
research publications of the Department of Agriculture, I am instructed 
to express, in the name of the President and the Secretary of Agriculture, 
their high appreciation of the honour you have done them in forwarding 
the resolution. 
Lam, Sir, 
Your obedient Servant, 
J. R. Carter, 
The Secretary of the Embassy. 
Rev. W. Wilks, 
Royal Horticultural Society, 
Vincent Square, Westminster, S.W, 
