LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. 



United States Department of Agriculture, 



Bureau of Forestry, 

 Washington, D. C, J fare h IS, 1903. 

 Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith a report entitled ''The 

 Woodlot: a Handbook for Owners of Woodlands in Southern New 

 England," by Prof. Henry Solon Graves, director of the Yale Forest 

 School, and Richard Thornton Fisher, field assistant in the Bureau of 

 Forestr}^, and to recommend its publication as Bulletin No. 42 of the 

 Bureau of Forestiy. 



The four half-tone plates and thirt}^ text figures accompanying tliis 

 bulletin are necessaiy for its proper illustration. 

 Respectfully, 



GiFFORD PiNCHOT, 



Forester. 

 Hon. James Wilson, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



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