LETTER OF TRANSMIHAL 



U. S. Department of Agriculture, 



Division of Forestry, 

 ^¥asUngton, B. C, Jidy 28, 1900. 



Sir: 1 have the honor to transmit herewith a report entitled ' 'A Short 

 Account of the Big Trees of California," and to recommend that it be 

 issued as Bulletin No. 28 of this Division. 



This report was prepared in accordance with your reference of Sena- 

 tor Hansbrough's letter of April 25, 1900, and has been transmitted to 

 Congress and printed as Senate Document 393, Fifty-sixth Congress, 

 first session. 



The original purpose of this report was to furnish information to 

 the Senate Committee on Pu])lic Lands, then considering the preserva- 

 tion of the Calaveras and Stanislaus Big Tree groves. Since there is 

 extant no other succinct account of these mammoth trees, it is deemed 

 advisable to issue this publication as one of the regular series of bul- 

 letins of the Division of Forestry. A more detailed account of the 

 Big Trees is in preparation by Prof. W. R. Dudley, of Stanford Uni- 

 versity, a collaborator of this Division, to whom is due the valuable 

 information in this ])ulletin upon the location and ownership of Big 

 Trees in Fresno and Tulare counties. 

 Respectfully, 



GiFFORD PiNCIIOT, 



, Forester. 

 Hon. James Wilson, 



Secretary. 



