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                                               Avery 
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                     February  1930 
 
 
 
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eservts io t q.4 stLon ether stla egar  to US possible reato of 
rbbitste. cam bird or regard to rabbit   s a t a Soe~ reore I in. 
 
 
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gis1o Ruiy to conids    st   of rabbtsde r the R woseey 
Xear Sill, an  sugesting parllel rabbit studies in Canad.      I wa 
aske to see you. persnoally to present the arigwots in favor of this 
sugestion. I tried to do this. but by th  tins I had gottenaroun 
to It I found you. had left tows. Carlos Avery now r~ests that I 
pre~set the a&pm~t M* wal as possibl by mai. 
 
        Th C&adianIconcrus, primarily the as.nows     rabt    You 
are familiar, of cours, with the various Canaian authouities wh 
-e  in wind. the existseas of a popuation cycle In snowshe rabbits. 
in mySm  survy of Wisconsin I found that this cycle coincided 
qu11. strongy with the grose cycle, but %bat the severty of vtrgo 
1eno of the cycle seme to vary a ge~at d~ between localit ies. 
Th  first r"*stioa I wol mak      t the aie& of an b$.irto  iea
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in Canada todtermine the extent to which the snomhos rabit eycl 
is #ot~si&Ita in scope and to uht extent the seveitty an vrlfe 
of the eyele varies as bstvon eg ions and 1..4lti~s.     I know that s*m

  wor hs bees dose an thIs, lpt as aavrly as I an aware  not *novg  hee 
beenston to presenta pitu"~ of eitho# Caad or the Units& States-

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        Cozt~rwOus with such an bistorica        stud t~ew should be 
o~lmously in both countriesa   stuies of te living rabbit to doterain 
*.at diseases and paraitesr     prev~alent and s*ieb ons e.    to *&us

thaevoylo. In this connetion I wout call your attentios to the fact