CURRENT STATION NOTES 



Acknowledgments 



In this first number of the official serial publications of the Roose- 

 velt Wild Life Forest Experiment Station, opportunity is afforded 

 to thank those who have been friendly to the cause for which the 

 Station stands and who have, in various ways, aided in advancing 

 a movement for wild life research which was first championed by 

 Theodore Roosevelt himself. Friends of Roosevelt and friends of 

 the College have generously combined in supporting these plans. 

 The Roosevelt family, the Trustees of the College of Forestry, our 

 friends in the Legislature, the former Dean, Dr. Hugh P. Baker, 

 the present Dean, Franklin F. Moon, and our Honorary Advisory 

 Council, have all responded generously. Gratitude and acknowledg- 

 ment is due the various authors, editors, and others who have con- 

 tributed articles or have given permission to publish their papers ; 

 including Dr. George Bird Grinnell, Sir Harry H. Johnston, Dr. 

 Gifford Pinchot, Mr. Edmund Heller, Mrs. George W. Perkins (for 

 permission to publish the paper by her husband), Dr. T. G. Ahrens, 

 and finally, to Mr. Ernest Thompson Seton for contributing the 

 excellent and appropriate cover design for the Bulletin. 



The College and the Roosevelt Station were greatly honored on 

 October n, by a visit from Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, 

 Colonel Roosevelt's sister. Her enthusiastic approval of the pur- 

 poses of this Memorial and her recognition of its appropriateness 

 was very gratifying indeed. Her interest was further shown by her 

 accepting membership on the Honorary Advisory Council, and by a 

 contribution to our fund for big game research in the Yellowstone. 

 Mrs. Robinson's intimate account of Roosevelt's boyhood, as told in 

 her book, My Brother Theodore Roosevelt, shows how clearly his 

 interest in the living outdoor world was innate, and how natural it 

 was that as a mature man he should comprehend the full meaning 

 of conservation and be able to do so much for forestry and wild life. 



Investigations in New York State, Summer of 1921 



Through cooperation with the Commissioners of the Allegany 

 State Park, of whom Hon. A. T. Fancher is Chairman, the Roosevelt 

 Station has had a field party make a survey of the conditions of 



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