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^[[461]] [[preprinted]] BOARD [[line]] Col. S. C. LYFORD, War Dep't, Chairman. Adm'l THORNTON A. JENKINS, Navy Dep't. Hon. R. W. TAYLER, Treasury Dep't, Hon. JOHN EATON, Interior "[[ditto for Dep't.]] Dr. C. F. MACDONALD, Post Office Dep't. WILLIAM SAUNDERS, Esq., Agricultural Dep't. Prof. S.F. BAIRD, Smithsonian Institution, and Commissioner of Food Fishes. WM. A. DECAINDRY, Secretary. [[line]] Col. JOSEPH S. CONRAD, U.S.A., Disb, Officer International Exhibition of 1876. Board on Behalf U.S. Executive Departments. [[line]] U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE GOVERNMENT BUILDING, FAIRMOUNT PARK Philadelphia, ^[[8th]] 1876 [[/preprinted]] Prof. Spencer F. Baird Dear Sir In answer to your note, including communication from G.C. Levey of the Victorian Commission regarding exchange of seeds, I would state that the Dept of Agriculture sends out a selection of seeds yearly to Horticultural and Agricultural societies in the British Colonies. If Mr Levey will send to the Dept the proper address, no doubt a package of the above series will be sent to it at the proper time. Further than this I cannot advise, unless it would be that he communicate directly with the Commissioner of Agriculture. Respectfully yours [[underlined]] William Saunders [[/underlined]]