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                                                       KEENE, NEW HAMPSHIRE

                                                       February 15, 1930.

 
 
Ur Aldo Leopold, 
     421 Che.atry Bldg., 
 
 
 
  dear ýr Leopold:- 
 
                       I have delayed answering your letter of -eb. 5th,

hoping that the recent weetirg    of the G(,e Commtte of the Rporting 
Aruit, and Am&unition   iu'acturers' Insdtitute would take sume action
on 
idy rfueit, or at le1at     rive me an indi3ction o-' ,v they t ight do.

I ha7ve Jut r-ceived from Comeaux a letter whic, "       y otates that

my proposals were considered betore the recent meeting but that action 
waa deferred until      at lter time. The only intereating thing he -aid

at all w4a that the 'er'ober  of the cor-ittee aýppreciýated
 y interest 
in this work, which o course weans nothing. 1 do not know whether or 
not you were pref.ýent at that meeting, but if you were I with you
could 
tell re, conidentially if you wish, whether or not there ia any prospect

o. their helping. 
 
                        I did not realize until I got your letter that 
 there wa a lot more work to do in the north central region. It see~e 
 to me, however, that thie need not eliminate the chance of your con- 
 ductinn- a survey here.  Ao I look upon the mitter there i1 probably 
 great deal o' da-t   you would like to have in your poaeeial     before

 you began the actui -          o T" 'ou could not begin a survey until

 qurneOr or Fall, or even the lpritIg of 1931, couldn't we be gathering 
 data for you and crrying out lines o,- activity which would not depend 
 upon the r;eulta of your work. 
 
                        You are entirely right in      aying that we need
an 
 outsider to conduct our survey here, U mnir who will have an open mind 
 rather than fixed ide-a. I hate to give up the idea of your doing the 
 job. 
                        You are also (quite right, of course, in   uggesting

 
 that the initial survey will be of no use unleas it succeeds in putting

 Itate inatitutions at work on fact finding projects. You will note 
 from my preliminary program that this is the very core of the idea. 
 WT rust reduce this game reatoration buoiness to a systematic and