40 FISH AND GAME COMMISSION 



REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF EDUCATION AND RESEARCH 



By Leo K. Wilson, Chief 

 PERSONNEL 



During the biennium just past, the Bureau of Education and 

 Research has functioned as a unit, with a few changes being made in 

 the personnel. Upon the resignation of Dr. H. C. Bryant, who had 

 been in charge of the work since its inception fourteen years before, 

 Leo K. Wilson succeeded to his position as chief of the bureau. Wilson 

 was formerly in charge of publicity under Bryant. Dr. Bryant relin- 

 quished his duties with the Division of Fish and Game to assume charge 

 of the educational work of the national parks with offices in the 

 National Park Service, Washington, D. C. 



Rodney S. Ellsworth continued his duties as lecturer, doing most 

 of his work in the schools of the State. Because Ellsworth was inter- 

 ested in continuing his degree work in the University of California, as 

 of March 1, 1931, this position was made a part-time one. 



Answering the demand for some one to conduct the educational 

 work in southern California, Jack Boaz was engaged as a lecturer in 

 that district operating out of the Los Angeles office. 



The pressure of work in the Bureau of Game Refuges made it 

 essential that additional help be employed there. Accordingly, as of 

 January 26, 1931, Donald D. McLean, field naturalist for the Bureau 

 of Education and Research, was transferred to game refuges where 

 he serves in the same capacity. He was replaced by James Moffitt, bird 

 and mammal research worker, a field naturalist of years of experience 

 who has proved to be a most valuable addition to the personnel of the 

 bureau. 



E. S. Cheney continued with his motion picture production work 

 and during the biennium has aided materially in the construction of 

 educational exhibits in various parts of California. 



As of February 20, 1932, Earl Soto, publicist, resigned and his 

 place was taken over by Opie L. Warner, an experienced newspaper 

 man and one well qualified to fill the position of publicist for the divi- 

 sion. 



The cooperative work between the Hooper Foundation for Medical 

 Research and the division has continued throughout the biennium. 

 Paul A. Shaw, toxicologist, continued in his work and Dr. M. Hobmaier 

 was employed as of September 1, 1930, as a pathologist, succeeded to the 

 position formerly occupied by Dr. Henry Van Roekel. Dr. Hobmaier 

 came from Vienna where he had been director of the Institute of Gen- 

 eral and Special Pathology, Histology, Food Hygiene and Forensic 

 Medicine, and thus furnishes the Division of Fish and Game a back- 

 ground of experience which can not be surpassed by the facilities 

 afforded any conservation commission in the country. 



E. L. Sumner, Jr., economic bird and animal zoologist, has con- 

 tinued his work on the depredations and interrelations of predatory 



