ioo Roosevelt Wild Life Bulletin 



porary appointment until January i, 1919, when he became Ichthy- 

 ologist on the Station staff. His resignation took effect October 1, 

 1921. While engaged in fish surveys he has, working with others, 

 made studies of the fish of Oneida Lake, of the Palisades Inter- 

 state Park region, and the Allegany State Park; and through his 

 interest the Erie County fish survey was initiated. He is a very 

 competent field naturalist, whose enthusiasm for studying the life 

 history and habits of fish has been a life-long passion. It is through 

 the Station having on its staff such a specialist that it has been able 

 to cooperate with various other State agencies and local organiza- 

 tions in its various fish surveys. He leaves the Station with its 

 best wishes for his future success. 



The Station is fortunate in being able to announce at this time 

 that Dr. William Converse Kendall, Scientific Assistant and Ichthy- 

 ologist of the United States Bureau of Fisheries at Washington, 

 D. C, has accepted the position as Ichthyologist made vacant by the 

 resignation of Mr. Hankinson. Dr. Kendall cooperated with the 

 Station, through the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, in our study of the 

 fishes of the Palisades Interstate Park. He has devoted years to 

 the study of trout and is our leading authority in America on the 

 Salmonidae. His well-known paper, The Rangeley Lakes, Maine; 

 with Special Reference to the Habits of the Fishes, Fish Culture 

 and Angling, is one of the most important studies of its kind ever 

 published in this country, and is only one of a large number of inter- 

 esting and important papers published by him. The Station is very 

 fortunate in securing such a competent man. 



The Fifth Anniversary 



The twenty-ninth of December is the fifth anniversary of the 

 presentation of the original plans for forest wild life research to 

 Colonel Roosevelt, and at that time they received his cordial approval. 

 However, on account of the War, these plans were not developed 

 until after his death, when they became the basis for this Memorial 

 Station, in May, 1919. Since then investigations have been con- 

 ducted on forest wild life in the Adirondacks, in the Palisades 

 Interstate Park, in the Allegany State Park, and during the past 

 summer investigations were started in the Yellowstone National 

 Park. Thus several of the most important features of the original 

 plans are already under way. 



