UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
                            FOREST SERVICE 
                   SOUTHERN FOREST EXPERIMENT STATION 
 
-ADDRESS RKPLY TO 
  DIRECTOR                                                 8 346 DARONNE
STRIEET. 
  AND REFER TO                                                NEW ONLEANS,
LA. 
 
S - SS                                                   February 23, 1932.

Library 
 
 
 
Mr. Aldo Leopold, 
421 Chemistry Building, 
Madison, Wisconsin. 
 
Dear Mr. Leopold: 
 
       The Southern Forest Experiment Station is desirous of building 
up an adequate reference library in forestry and allied subjects. We 
are somewhat handicapped in having no access locally to good reference 
libraries in the subjects in which our men are particularly interested. 
At the Southern Station we have a staff of approximately 30 technical 
men, most of whom are graduate foresters, although some of these men 
are working on special projects where access to the literature in 
fields allied to forestry is highly desirable. 
 
       In addition to purely forestry references, we often have need 
to refer to works on such subjects as taxonomic and systematic botany, 
biological botany and zoology, entomology, soils and soils chemistry, 
meteorology, economic and physical geography, biometry and statistics, 
forest and land economics, etc. 
 
       I am writing to ask for your suggestions as to reference books 
on the subjects of biological botany and zoology and related material, 
which you could recommend to us as appropriate additions to the books 
which we already have in these fields. I am attaching a list of these 
books, and any suggestions which you could furnish regarding additions 
to this list would be very much appreciated. Standard foreign 
references are desired in addition to the principal works in English. 
 
 
                                          Very sincerely yours, 
 
 
 
                                                       Director.