XLI.-CORRESPONDENCE CONNECTED WITH THE TRANSMISSION 

 OF EGGS OF THE QUINNAT SALMON AND OTHER SALMONIDil 

 TO EUROPEAN COUNTRIES IN 1878 AND PRIOR YEARS. 



GERMANY. 



E. BarteU to S. F. Baird. 



Imperial German Commission for the 



Centennial Exhibition, 

 German Pavilion, Centennial Grounds, 



Philadelphia, October 19, 1876. 

 Professor Baird, 



United States Building : 

 Sir : I have the honor to inform you that the Prussian minister of 

 the agricultural department has notified me by a cable telegram that 

 he accepts, with his greatest thanks, your very kind offer for sending 

 eggs of the Californian salmon to Prussia, and he begs you to forward 

 these eggs to the address of the " Fischzucht-Anstalt, Hameln, Province 

 Hannover." 



I am, yours, very respectfully, 



H. BARTELS. 



H. Bartels to S. F. Baird. 



Imperial German Commission for the 



Centennial Exhibition, 

 German Pavilion, Centennial Grounds, 



Philadelphia, December 23, 1876. 



In reply to your valued favor of the 22d instant, I beg leave to inform 

 you that, about the forwarding of salmon eggs to Germany, it will be 

 the best you write officially to his excellency the Prussian minister of 

 the agricultural department. Dr. Friedenthal, in Berlin, who will give 

 the necessary information to Hameln. 



For losing no time any more I have already communicated to the 

 minister your very kind offer, so that the necessary information can be 

 given to the agency in Bremen for accepting and forwarding the eggs 

 immediately on their arrival in Bremen ; therefore it will be sufiicient if 

 you will be kind enough as to inform the minister when you send the 



eggs and by what steamer thev will be shipped. 



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