The Acting Secretary of State to the Italian Ambassador.

No. 257.]

Excellency: Referring to this Department’s note No. 255, of the 27th instant, I have the honor to inform you that, by the President’s direction, Mr. Albert F. Woods, vegetable pathologist of the Department of Agriculture, has been designated as the technical agricultural associate of Ambassador White at the conference for the formulation of rules to govern the international institute of agriculture, to be held at Rome in May, 1905.

Accept, etc.,

Alvey A. Adee.