in sonic experiments, undertal 

 been obliginglj communicated 



rther attention to the properties of this valuable timber 



Foreign Office to Royal Gardens, Kkw. 

 Sir, Foreign Office, February 16, 1893. 



I am diiected by the Secretary of State lor Foreign Affairs to 

 transmit to you, to be laid before Mr. Thiselton-Dyer, a despatch as 

 marked in the margin relative to experiments made with regard to 



i offered by woods to the borer worm. 



unt Director, (Signed) E. Grey. 



British Directors, Suez Canal Company, to Foreign Office. 

 y Lord, Paris, 15th February 1893. 



We have the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith a 

 py of a letter which has been received from the Suez Canal Coni- 

 ny's chief engineer in Kgypt as to some experiments which have 

 en made at Fort Said with regard to the resistance offered to the 



The result as shown on the sketch cncln-d U that while the pine i 

 ;he oak are almost entirely destroyed the Greenheart has suffered 

 njury whatever. 



We have, &c. 

 (for the British directors) 

 The Most Honourable (Signed) H. Aum in Lee 



The Earl of Rosebery, K.G., &c. 



