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   NARECO, Washington, D.C. 
 
 
 
                      NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
                        2101 CONSTITUTION AVENUE, WASHINGTON, D. C. 
                          Established in 1916 by the National Academy of
Sciences under its Congressional 
                             Charter and organized with the cooperation of
the National Scientific 
                                   and Technical Societies of the United
States 
                                        November 1, 1946. 
 
 
 
           Dr, J. o H.Aikma 
           The Ecological Society of America 
           Botany Hall 
           Iowa Stete College 
           Ames, Io*a, 
 
           Deer Dr. Aikmans 
 
           My answer to your inquiry of October 28 would be that it would
be 
           courteous and desirable for the Ecologicrl Society, as a mtter
of 
           information, to state on its program that a meetirng of the 
           Ecologists Union ras ctlled for Euch and such a time, but I would

           x     f~ly avoid any implication thbt such notice  s any pert
of 
           the program of the Ecological Society; that it was simply given

           ýs a courtesy to another organization in a similar field.

 
 
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   Aldo Leopold 
   W    a   A. Dreyer 
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