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CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME 



A publication devoted to the conservation of wild life and published quarterly by 

 the California Division of Fish and Game. 



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Vol. 20 OCTOBER, 19.34 No. 4 



DIXON'S MULE DEER STUDY 



The concluding installment of Joseph S. Dixon's article, "A Study 

 of the Life History and Food Habits of Mnle Deer in California," is 

 the leading article of this issue. The first installment on "Life 

 History" appeared in the July, 1934, number of this magazine. 



Reprints of each of these articles have been ordered and will be 

 available under one cover at a nominal fee. 



GEORGE NEALE RETIRES FROM DIVISION 



George Neale, for over 25 years a member of the Division of Fish 

 and Game, and since 1928 chief of the Bureau of Fish Rescue, 

 retired on pension on August 1, 1934. 



Neale entered the employ of the Division in 1903. Prior to that 

 time he had been a game warden in Sacramento County. Shortly after 

 entering the service of the Fish and Game Commission, he was placed 

 in charge of all deputies in 23 northern counties. He held this impor- 

 tant position until 1922. In March, 1922, he was appointed executive 

 officer, from which position he resigned in 1925. 



So well versed in fish and game subjects, and especially fish, he 

 was put in charge of the newly formed Bureau of Fish Rescue in 1928, 

 which position he held until his retirement. 



Neale developed the saving of game fish into one of the most 

 important activities of the Division. At a cost of never more than 

 $6,000 per year, he saved, annually, 4,000,000 of various species of 

 sport fish. Fish that would have been swept to destruction by receding 

 waters, improperly screened diversion points and the flooding of 

 large areas of farm lands have been rescued and placed in waters 

 that insured them being saved for the sportsmen's creels. 



Few men in the Division had a wider knowledge of game and fish 

 than George Neale, and he applied this knowledge to the benefit of 

 the Division and the sportsmen. 



