CIRCULAR 9, FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE 



UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS 



Migratory Bird Conservation Commission. 



[Considers and passes upon lands and waters rec- 

 ommended by the Secretary of the Interior for 

 purchase or rental for use as migratory bird 

 refuges and fixes the price at which such area 

 or areas may be purchased or rented.] 



Chairman, Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the 

 Interior. 



Clinton P. Anderson, Secretary of Agriculture. 



Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Commerce. 



George L. Radcliffe, United States Senate. 



C. Wayland Brooks, United States Senate. 



John J. Cochran. House of Representatives. 



Walter Ellsworth Brehm, House of Representa- 

 tives. 



Secretary, Rudolph Dieffenbach, Fish and Wild- 

 life Ser\-ice, Department of the Interior, 

 Chicago 5-i, 111. 



Senate Special Committee on Conservation of 

 Wildlife Resources. 

 Chairman, Wallace H. White. .Jr., of Maine. 

 Josiah W. Bailey, of North Carolina. 

 Harry F. Byrd, of Virginia. 

 Pat ilcCarran, of Xevada. 

 Homer Ferguson, of Michigan. 

 Scott W. Lucas, of Illinois. 

 Guy Cordon, of Oregon. 



Secretary, Carl D. Shoemaker, 117-B Senate 

 Office Building, Washington, D. C. 



House Select Committee on Conservation of Wild- 

 life Resources. 

 Chairman, A. Willis Robertson, of Virginia. 

 Schuyler Otis Bland, of Virginia. 



James P. Richards, of South Caroli 



John D. Dingell, of Michigan. 



John J. Cochran, of Missouri. 



Herbert C. Bonner, of North Carolina. 



J. Hardin Peterson, of Florida. 



Virgil Chapman, of Kentucky. 



Henry M. Jackson, of W^ashington. 



John W. Flannagan, Jr., of Virginia. 



August H. Andresen, of Minnesota. 



Homer D. Angell, of Oregon. 



C. W. (Runt) Bishop, of Illinois. 



Walter E. Brehm, of Ohio. 



Bertrand W. Gearhart, of California. 



Robert K. Henrv, of Wiscon.sin. 



Clerk. Elizabeth Bond, 448 House Office Building, 



Washington, D. C. 

 Publications. — Hearings (annual); report to the 



Congress (biannual). 



UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT 

 OF THE INTERIOR 



Secretary, Harold L. Ickes. 



Fish and Wildlife Service, Chicago .54, 111. 



[The Fi.^h and Wildlife Service was established 

 Juno .'50. 1940, l>y consolidation of the former 

 Bureau of Biological Survey and the Bureau of 

 Fisheries. Jurisdiction over game and other 

 birds and mammals was authorized by the 

 Lacey .■Vet, approved May 2.5, 1900, as amended, 

 and over birds migrating between the United 

 States, Canada, and Mexico, by the Migratory 

 Bird Treaty Act, approved July 3, 1918, as 

 amended. It administers the Migratory Bird 

 Treaty .\ct, of July 3, 1918, as amended; the 

 Migratory BirdConscrvation Act, of February 

 18, 1929^ as amended: the .Migratory Bird 

 Hunting Stamp Art, of March 16, 1934. as 

 amended; the act of March 10, 1934, providing 

 for coordination of wildlife activities; the Lacey 

 Act, of May 2.5, 1900, as amended; the act of 

 June 8, 1940, providing for tlie protection of 

 the bald eagle; the act of September 2, 1937, 

 providing Federal aid to wildlife restoration; 

 the act of May 20, 1926, as amended, to regu- 



Fish and Wildlife Service — Continued. 



late interstate transportation of black bass; 

 the Whaling Treaty Act of May 1, 1936; and 

 other acts of Congress. 



In August 1942, headquarters of the Fish and 

 Wildlife Service were removed to Chicago, 111., 

 and this, therefore, unless otherwise stated, is 

 the address of its offices and officials listed 

 below. ] 

 Director, Ira N. Gabrielson. 

 Assistant directors: 

 Albert M. Day. 

 Charles E. Jackson. 

 Chief counsel, Donald J. Chaney. 

 Special assistant to the director, Hilary J. 



Deason. 

 Division of: 



Administration. 



Chief, W. R. Dillon. 



Assistant chiefs, Thos. E. Jacoby and S. C. 



Moore. 

 Accounts, David T. Shepard. 

 Personnel, acting in charge, Thos. E. Jacoby. 

 Records and communications, Thomas J. 

 Kelley. , 



Procurement, . 



Ser%-ice and training, Wesley E. Corbin. 

 Budgetary control, Edith J. Smith. 

 Equipment engineer, Rudolph O. Gustafson. 

 Information. 



Chief, Frank Dufresne. 

 Alaska Fisheries. 



Chief, Ward T. Bower. 

 Assistant chief, Paul E. Thompson. 

 General manager of Pribilof Islands, Edward 

 C. Johnston, 706 Federal Building, Seattle 

 4, Wash. 

 Fishery Biology. 



Chief, Elmer Higgins. 

 Assistant chief, Edward W. Bailey. 

 North Atlantic fishery investigations, Wil- 

 liam C. Harrington, 71 Mount Auburn 

 Street, Cambridge 38, Mass. 

 Middle Atlantic fishery investigations, Wil- 

 liam C. Neville, 155 John Street, New 

 York 7, N. Y. 

 Shrimp investigations, William W. Anderson, 

 1609 Masonic Temple, New Orleans 12, 

 La. 

 North Pacific fishery investigations, Joseph 

 T. Barnaby, 2725 Montlake Boulevard, 

 Seattle 2, Wash. 

 Alaska fishery investigations, acting in charge, 

 Edwin H. Dahlgren, 272.5 Montlake Boule- 

 vard, Seattle, Wash. 

 South Pacific fishery investigations, Oscar E. 

 Sette, 450 B. Jordan Hall, Stanford Uni- 

 versity, Calif. 

 Great Lakes fishery investigations, John Van 

 Oosten, University Museums, Ann Arbor, 

 Mich. 

 Water quality investigations. Max M. Ellis, 



101 Willis .\venue, Columbia, Mo. 

 Aquicultural investigations, Herbert S. 



Davis, Kearneysville, W. Va. 

 Shellfish investigations, Paul S. Galtsoff, 

 College Park, Md. 

 Game-fish and Hatcheries. 

 Chief, Milton C. James. 

 -Assistant chief, O. Lloyd Meehean. 

 Superintendent of fish distribution, Edward 

 J. Douglass. 

 Commercial Fisheries, New Interior Building, 

 Washington 25, D. C. 

 Chief, .Vndrew W. Anderson. 

 .Assistant chief, Fred F. Johnson (on fur- 

 lough). 

 Economics, Richard .\. Kahn. 

 Market development, Leroy R. Christev. 

 Market news, William H. Dumont. 

 Statistics, Edward .-\. Power. 

 Technology, James M. Lemon. 



