R.R.46 
                                       Lafayette" Indiana 
                                       Sept. 30, 1932. 
 
Mr. Aldo Leopold 
905 University Avenue 
Madison, Wisconsin 
 
Dear Sir: 
 
         Mr. D.C.Royer and myself have selected"AGame Survey 
of Tippecanoe County" as the title of the thesis which we will 
submit to the faculty of the Department of Forestry, School 
of Agriculture, at Purdue University. A thesis such as this, 
on subjects chosen by the student, is required of all candid- 
ates for Bachelloss degrees. 
 
We are both students in the Department of Forestry and have 
had first hand contact with game rearing and management, since 
we both spent one summer on the Indiana State Game Farm where 
we took active part in rearing and releasing mallards, quail, 
pheasants, and Hungarian partridges. 
 
We have deemed it adviseable to turn to you in our search for 
methods and procedure in making such a survey. We intend to 
make this survey intensive enough to provide a thesis of prac- 
tical value to the Division of Fish and Game, Indiana State 
Department of Conservation. This Division has already sanctioned 
our project. We will probably be able to allot about fifteen 
days to the field work of the survey. This much time in the 
field would certainiy provide enough data for a good intensive 
survey, provided we are able to work out a definite plan of 
procedure. The idea we have had in mind is to try and correlate 
cover, water, topography, etc. with quail and rabbit population 
and the success of pheasant plants. Whether or not we will be 
able to make observations on other game and fur bearers, is 
doubtful. 
 
Prof. B.N.Prentico, head of the Forestry Department, recommended 
that we write to you concerning our project. We both (Mr. Royer 
and I ) consider ourselves pretty well acquainted with your 
work since we are using the "Game Survey of the North Central 
States" in a Fish and Game course which we are enrolled in at 
the present time.