LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 



United States Department of Agriculture, 



Washington, D. C, January 31, 1895. 

 Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith Bulletin "No. 5 of this 

 division, treating of the habits, economic status, and means of destruc- 

 tion of -the Pocket Gophers of the United States. It has been prepared 

 by Vernon Bailey, chief field naturalist of the division, and is comple- 

 mentary to a technical paper on the group this day issued by the 

 division (North American Fauna, No. 8). 

 Respectfully, 



C. Hart Merriam, 

 Chief of Division of Ornithology and Mammalogy. 

 Hon. J, Sterling Morton, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



