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1910. 
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Dear Sir: 
In a letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, dated 
December 2, you are designated as a member of the party to 
be sent out by the Smithsonian Institution to make a biological 
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survey of the Manama Canal Zone, and it is understood that you 
willUeave New York on the steamship ’’Colon” of the Manama 
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Railroad Company, on Thursday, December 22, next. A letter 
was written on December 16 to Capt. P. C. Boggs, Chief of 
office of the Isthmian Canal Commission, requesting him to 
make the necessary arrangements for your accommodation on that 
steamer, and to furnish you with a letter of identification in 
order that you may obtain free transportation from Hew York to 
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I will request you to report to me your arrival in the 
Canal Cone and also to keep me posted concerning any business 
matters of importance that may arise during your connection 
with the expedition. 
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