12 Conservation Department 



The preparation of a program and the conduct of so large a 

 project as the survey involved were made the object of a con- 

 ference called by the Conservation Commissioner. Scientists 

 representing each of the cooperating institutions and others were 

 present as follows : 



Alexander Macdonald, Commissioner, presiding. 



Dr. W. C. Kendall, Ichthyologist, U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



Mr. E. Higgins, Scientific Inquiry, U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. 



Dr. Geo. C. Embody, Aquiculture, Cornell University. 



Dr. A. H. Wright, Zoologist, Cornell University. 



Dr. W. C. Muenscher, Botanist, Cornell University. 



Dr. E. H. Eaton, Biologist, Hobart College. 



Dr. Chas. C. Adams, Director, State Museum. 



Dr. Gertrude Douglas, Botanist, State College. 



Mr. F. E. Wagner, Chemist, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 



Dr. P. H. Struthers, Zoologist, Syracuse University. 



Llewellyn Legge, Chief Protector, Division Fish and Game. 



Emmeline Moore, Director of Survey. 



Sumner Cowden, Field Superintendent. 



General guiding principles were adopted governing action 

 between the Conservation Department and outside agencies (State 

 universities, colleges or other educational institutions) cooperating 

 with the Conser\ r ation Department. They are as follows : 



1. The present policy of considering watershed areas as the unit 

 area for study shall be continued as the permanent policy. 



2. Specialists and workers generally shall be selected on the 

 basis of training and fitness. 



3. The distribution of tasks shall be by duties rather than by 

 localities. 



4. The individuals in charge of different portions of the survey 

 shall have such measure of freedom in the choice of helpers and 

 in the conduct of their work as is compatible with the objects 

 sought by the Conservation Department, 



5. Individuals responsible for suggesting policies shall be given 

 access to all data bearing on their work by whatever portions of 

 the survey gathered. 



6. In the publication of results, full credit shall be given to 

 cooperating institutions and individuals. 



7. Any financial obligation incurred by special work for the 

 Conservation Department through the use of materials or equip- 

 ment in the laboratories of the State or other cooperating institu- 

 tions shall be borne by the Conservation Department only on 

 authorization. 



Personnel. — In the conduct of this survey the Conservation 

 Department has had the cooperation of five educational insti- 

 tutions in the State — Cornell and Syracuse Universities, Hobart 

 College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the State Normal 

 College — with specialists from each of these institutions actively 

 engaged in the field investigations. With such participation there 

 can be no doubt that there has been inaugurated a program of far 



