THE STATE COLLEGE OF WASHINGTON 
                      PULLMAN, WASHINGTON 
 
 
                         June 12, 1934 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Professor Aldo Leopold 
In Charge, Game Research 
University of Wisconsin 
Madison, Wisconsin 
 
 
Dear Professor Leopold: 
 
 
I want to thank you for your letter regarding Logan Bennett. My 
correspondence regarding him has been with Carl J. Drake, Head of 
the Department of Zoology, and Professor J. E. Guthrie of the same 
department. Both these men I have known for a long time, and while 
I have a high regard for their estimate of the young man, I have 
also the feeling that they are trying very hard to place their 
students. 
 
I think I wrote you for an estimate of Charles J. Spiker, with whom 
you may have had some contacts.   Certainly it is preferable to bring 
into the work a man who has some little background of experience. I 
recently had a very good letter regarding Mr. Spiker from Charles 
E. Johnson, Director of the Roosevelt Wild Life Station at Syracuse, 
New York. Director Johnson states that Spiker "knows farm and c ountry

life and understands from first-hand contact the relations between 
the agriculturist and the sportsman and the relations of agricultural 
interests to game and other forms of wild life."    Even at this, 
however, I am wondering how he would be likely to get along with our 
sportsmen.   Spiker is said to be very adaptable and may be just the 
man we should have. 
 
 
                          Yours very truly, 
 
                          STATE COLLEGE OF WASHINGTON 
 
 
 
 
 
                          R. L. Webster, Head 
                          Department of Zoology 
 
 
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