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Ottawa, Jan. 16, 1912 



Prof. H. H. Whetzel, ' 



Cornell Universitj/-.; Ithaca, K.Y. 



Dear Profesf.:6r ?7h,etzGl. : 



In answer to your reciuest I have much 

 pleasure in sending you a copy of my paper on legislation in 

 Connection with plant diseases. This paiier as read before the 

 Cleveland mee-ting is substantially the same as one read for me at 

 one of the meetings of the International Horticultural Exhibition 

 held in' London during the past year and embodies the results of 

 my e?cperiEnce;-in this direction. I may add that the subject of 

 a national agreement to prevent the export of diseased vegetation 

 is being seriously considered by the various self-governing 

 countries of the British Empire; if such an agreement takes 

 definite' shape, it will be interesting to watch its working -.md 

 to see what possibilities it affords for an international appli- 

 cation of the same principle. 



I am also sending you, under separate cover, a copy of a 

 bulletin recently published by our Department of Agriculture 

 v/hich gives a summary of all such legislation. Federal and 

 Provincial, at present in force in Canada, and which I trust 

 will be of interest. I possess, however, copies of very few 

 of the legislative acts of different countries and have to rely 

 chiefly on the summaries and notes given in the Journal of the 

 Board of Agriculture (London, Eng.), the bulletin of the Inter- 

 national Agricultural Institute (Home), Hollrung's Jahresbericht 

 and Just's Jahresbericht, all of which are no doubt familiar to 

 you. 



