THE WILDLIFE SOCIETY 
 
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JOUTRNAL  OF  WIL -LIFi  ... ......... T' 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                         February 4, 1943.

 
 
 
               Prof. Aldo Leopold, 
                   424 University Far Place, 
                        MAdison, Wisconsin. 
 
               Dear Leopold: 
 
                   If Eltont's book were eligible for The Wildlife Society

              award, there would be no questionof course$of its coming first.

              However, Mton is not a member and specifically declined to
become 
              a member so that a subscription to The Tournal of Wildlife
Manage- 
              Ment could be paid by the Bureau of Aninal Population instead
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              him personally. 
 
                   Aside from the disjointed character of the Wyoming sheep

              bulletin, my min objection to it is that hunting was   ntted

              on what should have been known as their experimental S   during

              the progress of the investigation. That was objectionable from

              the scientific point of view, but from the conservation angle,
it 
              would seem that no hunting whatever of the sheep in Wyoming
should 
              have been permitted. 
 
                                             Sincerely yours,