VNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI 
                                  COLUMNIA 
 
 
DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY                                  December 16, 1933

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
           Mr. Aldo Leopold 
           Game Manager 
           Soils Building 
           University of Wisconsin 
           Madison, Wisconsin 
 
 
           Dear Mr. Leopold: 
 
                     You will be interested and I hope pleased to 
           know that the new administration of the Missouri Game and 
           Fish Department is considering favorably the plan of eon- 
           tinuing its technical relationship with the University of 
           Missouri in the matter of research on game problems. One 
           of our men, Mr. Blakey, worked half-time for them for a 
           year and a half. He is now in charge of the production 
           program of turkeys at Sam A. Baker State Park, and the 
           present commissioner, Mr. W. C. Buford, has told Dr. Woods 
           and me that he sees no reason why another investigator 
           should not be appointed early in 1934. The man being con- 
           sidered for the position is Mr. W. 0. Nagel, who as you 
           probably know has been conducting some very interesting 
           observations of quail in four selected areas in Boone 
           County involving the study of food and cover conditions, 
           predators, parasites, and stomach analyses. We are hoping 
           that even in this time of depression the Game and Fish 
           Department will realize that there are few ways in which 
           its money could be better spent than in the support of 
           basic research here at the University upon problems of 
           direct importance to them. My reason for writing you is 
           to ask if you would be willing to write your views in the 
           matter to Commissioner Buford, telling him what you think 
           of Missouri as likely territory for a quail investigation 
           and of the University of Missouri as a place in which such 
           an investigation could be satisfactorily handled. 
 
                     I don't think I ever acknowledged the receipt of 
          your splendid volume on "Game Management". I have read
it 
          with a great deal of interest and I congratulate you on the 
          scope and quality of the work. It should be the conserva- 
          tionist's Bible for a long time to come and I am very glad 
 
 
to have my copy of it