908 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



I shall leave here next week and shall give me the honor to call on 

 your ofl&ce in Washington, where I have business for some days. 

 I am, yours very respectfully, 



H. BARTELS. 

 Prof. Spencer F. Baird, 



Washington, D. G. 

 Closing this letter I have received a letter from the minister, Excellenz 

 Friedenthal, who informs me that he has communicated to the magistrate 

 of Hameln, Hannover, your kind offer. Will you please inform the 

 magristat at Hameln when the salmon eggs will be shipped and by 

 what steamer. 



Yours, H. B. 



The German Minister to S. F. Baird. 



Imperial German Legation, 



Washington, 21st ilarch, 1877. 

 Sir : In the letter you directed on the 6th of February last to the 

 minister of the agricultural department of Prussia, you were kind 

 enough to offer to Dr. Friedenthal some eggs of the California salmon, 

 provided Congress would continue the appropriations, and that the 

 Prussian department would pay the cost of packing and shijiment. 



Dr. Friedenthal has now requested me to express to you his warmest 

 thanks for this kind offer, and to beg you that, if possible, 50,000 embryo- 

 nated eggs of the California salmon may at the proper time of this year be 

 forwarded to the " Fischzucht-Anstalt in Hameln, Proviuz Hannover." 

 I beg you, sir, to be kind enough to inform me if, and when, such 

 transportation would be possible, and to inform me also of the expenses 

 aforesaid, in order to be restituted by this legation. 

 Accept, sir, the renewed assurances of my high consideration. 



SCHLOEZEE, 



German Minister. 

 Prof. Spencer F. Baird. 



H. E. Rockwell to the German 3Iinister. 



Washington, D. C, Alarch 22, 1877. 

 Sir : I have the honor to acknowledge, in behalf of Professor Baird, 

 who is temporarily absent from the city, the receipt of your letter of the 

 21st, and to say that a memorandum has been made of the request con- 

 tained therein for 50,000 eggs of the Californian salmon. 



On the return of Professor Baird you will doubtless receive a suitable 

 response to your communication. 



RespectfuUy, H. E. KOCKWELL, 



Secretary. 

 r>aron Schloezer, 



German Minister f^WasMtigton, I>. C. 



