THE O 10 STATE UNIVERSITY 
     GRUGRG W. mUGHTMIXE, PMU.Th3=7 
 
 
DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY 
R. N. TRANSEAU  B. S. MEYER 
3*. H*. SCHAFFNER S. S. HUMPHRUY 
W. G. STOVB LOIS LAMPE 
H. C. SAMPSON PEARLS WILLIAMS 
A. I. WALLEIR W. U. CAMP 
L. H. TIFFANY  G. W. BLAYDRS 
 
 
                                        COLUMBUS 
 
                                        May 3, 1929 
 
 
          Mr. Aldo Leopold 
 
          Madison, iisconsin 
 
          My dear Mr. Leopold:- 
 
                   At the suggestion of Mr. E. F. McCarthy I have gone 
          over the possibilities of making a survey of the Quail situation

          in Ohio with Mr. Lawrence E. Hicks. 
 
                   Mr. Hicks has completed a year of work toward his 
          Doctor's degree in Botany, he is a very diligent and exceptional

          student of plant and animal distribution and I can recommend him

          above anv student that has been in the Botany or Zoology Departments

          during the last five years for the particular study that you have
in 
          mind. 
 
                   Since this study involves the use of the facilities of

          the University and the co-operation of a Professor in charge it

          will be necessary for you to submit a definite statement of the

          project and a financial statement of money that should be paid
to 
          the investigator and money that is to be expended for apparatus

          and equipment for making light, temperature and moisture deter-

          minat ions. 
 
                   I believe that if the survey can be made without inter-

          fering with Mr. Hicks' Doctors degree that it is worth his while

          to undertake it. If it means that his Doctor's degree is to be

          delayed two or three years he had better not commit himself to

          this program because I believe that in side of five years Mr. Hicks

          will have arrived in a position that will be worth far more than

          the possibilities of this particular study. 
 
                   7ill you therefore either send me a detailed statement

          of what you would like to have done or come here and talk the 
          whole matter over with us jointly. I may say that I have been 
          working on the VegetatiVA Survey of the state for a part of fourteen

          years and that I am greatly interested in any project that will
furnish 
          additional data on the distribution of plants and animals in the
state 
          or that will contribute to our knowledge of the physiological factors

          involved in these distributions. 
 
                                                      Very sincerely yours,

 
 
 
          ENT:BMc                                     E. N. Transeau