Copy for Dr. Ivey F. Lewis 
 
 
                rIfIVERSITY OF :JICHIGAI-T 
 
                     Ann Arbor 
 
                 President's Room 
 
                                  March 30, 1934; 
 
 
 
Dr. John C. Merriam, 
Carnegie Institution of Washington, 
Washington, D.C. 
 
My dear Dr. Merriam: 
 
       I am, sorry that you find it necessary to resign 
as chairman of the Conmmittee on Wild Life of the Ma- 
tional Research Council. I can readily understand, how- 
ever, that your time is very much taken up with other 
things. 
 
       I expect to have a report for the Mational Re- 
search Council by the time of the April meeting. I will 
find it necessary to put in a different kind of report 
than I planned at first. Changes are taking place so 
rapidly that the problem varies almost from day to day. 
I have been using the University as a sort of laboratory 
for the work of the Committee and even within our own or- 
ganization I find changes tsling place that I did not 
anticipate for a number of years. 
 
                       Yours sincerely, 
 
 
(signed) ALEXA-CDER G. RUTHVEN