APPROPRIATENESS AND APPRECIATION OF 

 THE ROOSEVELT WILD LIFE MEMORIAL 



Dr. Charles C. Adams, Director 



The establishment of a wild life Memorial to commemorate 

 Roosevelt's interest in and achievements for forest animals seems a 

 very natural response to everyone acquainted with him. Its appro- 

 priateness is emphasized most strongly by those who were closest 

 to him. 



Indorsements 



In response to a request for the use of the Roosevelt name, 

 Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Roosevelt wrote : " I know that my 

 father would appreciate no type of memorial more than that which 

 you suggest, as you know it was one of the subjects that was always 

 uppermost in his mind. I give my consent without reservation for 

 the use of his name for this memorial." 



Captain Kermit Roosevelt wrote as follows : " I was very much 

 pleased to learn of the foundation, as it is the sort of activity of 

 which my father would heartily have approved, and should play an 

 important and useful part in the study and preservation of our 

 wild life." 



Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, on her recent visit to the 

 Station expressed her enthusiastic approval of its aims and gave 

 assurance of the fitness of this memorial to her brother. 



Dr. George Bird Grinnell, the Nestor of American sportsman- 

 naturalists, and a life-long friend and co-worker of Roosevelt, 

 wrote, May 19, 1919J " Some of us feel very deeply that in this 

 project Mr. Roosevelt would have felt an interest far keener than 

 in the various monuments of which we now hear so much and which 



no doubt will be carried through It seems to me that 



there is no limit to the good that may be accomplished by it, and 

 this appears to be the first active step in a work that will receive 

 more and more attention in this country My long friend- 

 ship with Theodore Roosevelt gives me a peculiar interest in this 

 Station on sentimental grounds; and my life-long experience in pro- 

 moting the protection of natural things on purely economic grounds 

 justifies my faith in your work, and leads me to hope that your 

 plea for support may be successful." 



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