GAME SURVEY
CONDUCTED FOR THE
SPORTING ARMS AND AMMUNITION MANUFACTURERS INSTITUTE
BY ALDO LEOPOLD
404 UNIVERSITY AVE. NATL BANK BLDG.
MADISON, WISCONSIN
May 7, 1931
PERSONAL
Mr. Ralph T. King
University Farm
St. Paul, Minnesota
Dear Ralph:
I did not run up to Cloquet to see you because I have promised
to go to Michigan next week, so we couldn't have made an adequate field
trip. In the university matter it was not clear to me that a talk with
you was any great advantage at this time, as will appear below.

I talked the university matter
Dr. Boss, Dr. Green, Mr. Henderson, and
more superficially with Dr. Zon and Dr.

over with Dr. Riley, Dean Coffey,
Mr. Kilgore in some detail, and
Smitz of the Committee.

Dean Coffey told me that due to Dr. Riley's intended absence,
it was proposed to throw the supervision of the fellowship to Dr. Boss.
I assume this had been taken up with you. (Incidentally I heartily
appreciate Dr. Riley's sportsmanship in assenting to this change.)
It sounded good to me, as it is clearer than ever to my mind that a
large part of Dr. Green's antagonism is against the department, rather
than you personally. I also learned it was proposed to revive the
Wild Life Research Committee, which I gathered would remove one more
sore spot from Green's mind.
Accordingly, when I went .to see Dr. Green and Mr. Henderson,
I said I did not propose to make any attempt to understand all the
details of what had transpired, but wanted to know whether in their
view it would be a step in the right direction to transfer the fellow-
ship to the Experiment Station, and to leave the matter of working out
future relationships to Dr. Boss with such help as he saw fit to re-
quest from the Committee.
Dr. Green said yes, and Henderson concurred.

I
you or say
felt hurt,
as that he
to a third

also said that I had not seen you, and could not speak for
what would be acceptable to you, but that I assumed you
not so much because Dr. Green had questioned your actions,
had questioned your good faith in such actions, and that
party. Dr. Green then explained that he had been asked