20 Roosevelt Wild Life Bulletin 



Hon. Henry L. Stimson, former Secretary of War, wrote : 

 " I sympathize with the purpose of making your Station a Memorial 

 to Theodore Roosevelt. I know his sympathy and interest in that 

 kind of work, and I feel it is just the kind of purpose in which he 

 would take deep and lasting interest." 



Mr. Edmund Heller, Roosevelt's companion on his African hunt- 

 ing trip, and joint author with him of The Life Histories of African 

 Game Animals, wrote : " The Roosevelt Wild Life Forest Experi- 

 ment Station, the Memorial to Theodore Roosevelt, is just the sort 



of memorial of which he would have approved Nothing 



would have brought more joy to Roosevelt's heart than the establish- 

 ment of a Wild Life Experiment Station such as you have, where 



animals can be studied free from artificial conditions It 



seems particularly fit that this institution should commemorate such 

 a man as Roosevelt, whose keenest enjoyment in life was the pur- 

 suit and study of animals in their native haunts." 



Mr. Horace M. Albright, Superintendent of the Yellowstone 

 National Park, writes: "I have read your bulletin on the Roose- 

 velt Wild Life Forest Experiment Station and have found it most 

 interesting. You have undertaken a great public work and it 

 deserves the support of every section of the country, and particularly 

 does it deserve the encouragement of every Government institution 

 that is interested in the conservation of forest wild life ; and as 

 superintendent of our greatest game-preserve, Yellowstone Park, I 

 hope that you will call on me for any aid that you think I am capable 

 of giving to the Experiment Station." 



Dr. William T. Hornaday, Trustee, Permanent W r ild Life Pro- 

 tection Fund, a life-long champion of wild life protection, writes 

 as follows : " I give my most cordial indorsement to the aims and 

 purposes of the Roosevelt Wild Life Station, and I regard it as 

 a very necessary factor in the fight for better preservation and 

 better utilization of the wild life of the State." 



The indorsement and commendation of this Memorial bring out 

 clearly its appropriateness and unique character, and are an assur- 

 ance by the highest authority that it stands for Roosevelt's distinc- 

 tive personal interest, as well as for a large and important part of 

 his conservation program, paving the way for an intelligent use of 

 forests and forest wild life. Still another distinguishing and com- 

 mendable feature of the Station is that it is an adaptation of plans 

 for wild life research which Roosevelt himself approved, as will 

 now be shown. 



