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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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21 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO

SIR,

Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 4. Whitehall Place,

London, S.W., 25th April, 1913.

I AM directed by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th instant, enclosing a copy of one from the Colonial Office dated the 15th instant,* suggesting that the Imperial Bureau of Entomology should be represented by an Assessor to the British Delegates at the General Assembly of the International Agricultural Institute at Rome.

In reply, I am to state that the Board see no objection to this proposal, but that as the Commission on Phytopathology has fallen through they do not expect that the General Assembly will be prepared to deal with the question of international action on plant disease, and they are, accordingly, not sending any specialist from this Department to Rome to advise in this connection.

The Under-Secretary of State,

Foreign Office.

I am, &c.,

SYDNEY OLIVIER.

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