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DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 
Washington, May 13, 1914. 
The Honorable the SECRETARY OF WAR. 
Sir: Referring to your letter of October 1 and the Department’s reply 
of October 10 last, I have the honor to inclose for your information a copy 
of a despatch from the American Charge d’Affaires at Buenos Aires, 
reporting on the experiments made in the Argentine with the Coccobacillus 
d’Herelle. 
I have the honor to be, sir, 
Your obedient servant, 
For the Secretary of State: 
RoBERT LANSING, Counselor. 
Inclosure: From Argentine Republic, No. 272, April 9, 1914. 
LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 
Buenos Aires, April 9, 1914. 
No. 272. 
The Honorable, the SECRETARY OF STATE, 
Washington. : 
Sir: Referring to the Department’s instruction No. 91, of October 10, 
1913 (File No. 105 P. I. 14), instructing the Legation to secure further 
information regarding the use in this country of bacteria cultures for 
destroying locusts, I have the honor to report that a commission appointed 
by the Minister of Agriculture has decided that Coccobacillus acridiorum 
d’Herelle, the bacteria sent by the Legation to the Department at the 
request of the Philippine Government, did not produce favorable results in 
this country. 
M. d’Herelle has severed his connections with the Argentine Ministry 
of Agriculture and has gone to Hurope. He claims that he was not given 
a fair opportunity to test the result of his bacteria and that he was hampered 
in his work by the hostility of the minor officials of the Agriculture 
Department. It is announced that the Ottoman Government wishes him 
to test his bacteria in Asia Minor. 
I have the honor to be, sir, 
Your obedient servant, GEORGE LORILLARD, 
Charge d’ Affaires ad interim. 
[First indorsement.] 
B. I. A., WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Washington, D. C., May 18, 1914. 
Copy to the Governor-General of the Philippine Islands, Manila, P. I., 
reference being had to letter from this Bureau of May 9, 1914. 
Copy for The Director of the Bureau of Science, June 24, 1914. 
6478-37 
Wak DEPARTMENT, 
BUREAU OF INSULAR AFFAIRS, 
Washington, May 9, 1914. 
From: Bureau of Insular Affairs. 
To: Governor-General of the Philippine Islands. 
Subject: Hxperiments with d’Herelle bacillus for destruction of locusts. 
1. In connection with this bureau’s letter to you of May 7, and con- 
