Buenos Aires, January 22nd, 1921. 
Sir: 
With reference to your letter of the 5th instant again 
requesting from the Argentine Government a permit'for the 
export free of the payment of customs duties of six boxes of 
specimens of birds and other animals which are to be trans¬ 
mitted to the Department of Agriculture in Washington, I now 
beg leave to inform you that the necessary permission has been 
obtained. I have to-day informed the American Express Company 
accordingly and transmitted a copy of the permit to that 
company. 
I am. Sir, 
Your obedient servant 
{Eor the Ambassador) 
Dr. Alexander Wetmore, 
c/o American Consulate General, 
Lavalie 341, 
Buenos Aires. 
