U. a DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Office of Information 
Press Service 
Release - Immediate. 
January 8, 1927. 
HMDERSON ASSOCIATE CHIEF 
OF THE BIOLOCICAL SURVEY 
Walter C. Henderson has been appointed by the 
Secretary of Agriculture to be associate chief of the Biological Survey, a new 
position in that bureau created on January 1. Exceptional opportunities through 
training and experience have well qualified him to assist in the direction of 
that important Government bureau. 
Having been connected with the Biological Survey for more than ten years 
in the capacity of assistant chief, his services in the bureau have been coex¬ 
tensive with its administration of the migratory-bird treaty act, its expanded 
work with States in the cooperative control of predatory animals and injurious 
rodents, and its studies of the migratory and other habits of birds through 
banding operations. In this period he has made tours of inspection of field 
offices of the Biological Survey in many States and has become acquainted 
with officials enforcing State game and fur laws, and with sportsmen and natural¬ 
ists through attendance at their conventions. In Alaska he has had firs.t-hand 
opportunity to observe the recently inaugurated work for the improvement of the 
reindeer industry and to note developments in fur farming in the Territory. Be¬ 
fore coming to the Biological Survey Mr. Henderson had practiced law for several 
years in Boston, Mass., and had later held important positions in the Forest 
Service and in the office of the Solicitor of the Department of Agriculture, both 
in Washington and in field offices. He is a graduate of George Washington Uni¬ 
versity and of the Boston University School of Law. Scientific societies of 
which he is a member include the American Ornithologists' Union, American For¬ 
estry Association, National Conservation Association, Cooper Ornithological Club, 
American Society of Mammalogists, Baird Ornithological Club, and the Biological 
Society of Washington. 
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