COUNCIL 
 
HAROLD C. ANDERSON 
    DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
L. A. BARRETT 
   CALIFORNIA 
HARVEY BROOME 
   TENNESSEE 
IRVING M. CLARK 
   WASHINGTON 
BERNARD FRANK 
    DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
DOROTHY SACHS JACKSON 
    MARYLAND 
ALDO LEOPOLD 
    WISCONSIN 
BENTON MACKAYK 
    MASSACHUSETTS 
GEORGE MARSHALL 
    NEW YORK 
OLAUS MURIE 
    WYOMING 
ERNEST OBERHOLTZER 
    MINNESOTA 
ROBERT STERLING YARD 
    DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
 
 
THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY 
 
         1840 MINTWOOD PLACE 
 
           WASHINGTON, D. C. 
 
 
     OFFICERS 
 
ROBERT STERLING YARD 
   PRESIDENT 
   PERMANENT SECRETARY 
BENTON MAcKAYE 
   VICE PFRESIDENT 
HAROLD C. ANDERSON 
   TREASURER 
 
 
Dr. Aldo Leopold 
University of Wisconsin 
Madison, Wisconsin 
 
My dear Aldo: 
 
     Last June you suggested that we should approach Dr. Murphy 
with the idea of the Wilderness Society working with the Eco- 
logical Society. In the later letter you wrote this: "It seems 
to me important that our crowd should know what the ecologists are 
after, and they should know what we are after. I think the best 
way to accomplish this fusion is through particular individuals who 
are able to comprehend both groups and whose word would carry weight 
with both groups. The outstanding man for this puarpose is doubtless 
Charles Elton of Oxford, but I fear he is entirely tied up at pres- 
ent with war duties. The best man on this side of the water that I 
can think of is Robert Cushman Murphy of the American Museum. We 
might get Dr. Murphy to prepare a special discussion of the wilder- 
ness idea aimed toward the fusion. If the Society agrees, I will 
volunteer to broach the matter to him." 
 
     On June 21, in response to an inquiry from me, you wrote, "I 
think we can call on him in the future if we can give him more 
notice." 
 
     This is to say that we are wide-open for your suggestions 
along this line. 
 
 
 
                                        Sincerely yours, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
RSY:Y 
 
 
January 28, 1941