LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 



IT. S. Department of Agriculture, 



Bureau of Plant Industry, 



Office of the Chief, 

 Washington, B. C, November 23, 1901. 

 Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith a paper entitled Stock 

 Ranges of Northwestern California: Notes on the Grasses and Forage 

 Plants and Range Conditions, and respectfully recommend that it be 

 published as Bulletin No. 12 of the Bureau series. The paper was 

 prepared by Mr. Joseph Burtt Davy, assistant botanist of the Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, University of California, and was sub- 

 mitted by the agrostologist. 



Respectfully, B. T. Galloway, 



Ch ief of B urea u. 

 Hon. James Wilson, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



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