with your investigations as a member of this expedition. The 
following papers are also attached for your information and 
guidanoe: 
Copy of a letter from the Secretary of State, informing 
me that the Manama Government has been notified of the send¬ 
ing out of this expedition by the Institution, and of the 
probability of the extension of the investigations of its 
members into the Republic of °anama; - and 
Copy of a letter from Captain P. C. Boggs, Chief of Office 
of the Isthmian Canal Commission, stating that free transporta¬ 
tion has been authorised for both the members of the expedition 
and their equipment on the Manama Railroad and Steamship Line. 
With the hope that your labors as a member of this 
expedition will prove agreeable to you, and with my earnest 
wishes that they may be attended with every suooess, I am. 
Very respectfully yours 
Secretary 
Bureau of Plant Industry, 
U. S. Department of Agrioulture 
Washington, D. C. 
