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. 



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