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chief in the Forest Service. Mr. Redington, a graduate of 

 the Yale Forestry School, had had long years of experience 

 in forestry work. It was believed that this experience would 

 especially fit him to head the Survey because of the close 

 connection between wild-life conservation and forestry. 



After a comparatively brief term of six years, Mr. Red- 

 ington was returned at his own request to the Forest Service. 

 He was succeeded by Jay Darling whose famous cartoons 

 have, in good measure, popularized the wild life conserva- 

 tion movement. Mr. Darling, who had long been promi- 

 nent in wild-life work in Iowa, had more recently served as 

 a member of the President's Committee on Wild Life 

 Restoration. The conservationists have the feeling that here 

 at last is a man who will not err on the side of lax enforce- 

 ment of the game laws. 



Administrative Organisation of the Survey: The Bureau 

 of the Biological Survey constitutes one of the fifteen 

 bureaus that go to make up the Department of Agriculture. 

 Organized under the Chief of the Bureau who is respon- 

 sible to the Secretary of Agriculture, the Survey's activities 

 are divided among a number of divisions and independent 

 sections. 



The staff functions are divided into two groups, the busi- 

 ness operations which are placed together in the Division 

 of Administration, and those activities having to do with 

 public relations which are handled through the Division of 

 Public Relations. The line functions, constituting those 

 activities which the Bureau was organized to perform, are 

 carried on by six divisions and one independent project, 

 namely, the Divisions of Biological Investigations, Food 

 Habits Research, Fur Resources, Game Management, Land 

 Acquisition, Migratory Waterfowl, and the independent 

 project on Disease Investigation. 



