Region One is affected directly by several important transfers of administrative officers and of technicians which were approved this month by Secretary Ickes.

DR. CARL P. RUSSELL, who became Regional Director when that post first was created in July, 1937, will be elevated on January 1, to national Supervisor of Research and Information, a position now held by Dr. Harold C. Bryant, who will assume, on the same date, the Superintendency of Grand Canyon National Park. DR. RUSSELL, possessed of wide field and administrative experience in many activities of the Service, will be charged with responsibility for the functions of the Wildlife, Museum and Naturalist Divisions. An earnest scholar in the fields of biology, history and prehistory, he has indicated he will devote special attention to the wildlife program of the Service as an important contributing element in national conservation. His peculiar qualifications for the assignment are reflected strikingly in his record as field naturalist, Chief of the Museum Division and Chief of the Wildlife Division.

MINER R. TILLOTSON, Superintendent for more than nine years of Grand Canyon National Park, will be the new Director of Region One. An engineer by profession, he has an intimate knowledge of Service field procedure and needs. (More about MR. TILLOTSON'S career will be found in the November issue of The Review.)

HILLORY A. TOLSON, Chief of Operations, was assigned, by the same order for one year as Acting Regional Director of Region Three, with headquarters in Santa Fe, N. M. HERBERT MAIER, present Acting Regional Director, will continue the duties of Associate in the same office. MR. TOLSON is engaged, meanwhile, in redrafting organization charts for the Washington and Regional Offices, necessitated by recent changes in the titles and internal machinery of the Branches.

WILLIAM J. HOWARD resigned September 1 as Regional Wildlife Technician, a position he had held since September, 1936, and accepted a Civil Service appointment as Inspector in the Bureau of Biological Survey of the Department of Agriculture, with headquarters in Atlanta. His territory includes the coastal states from Maryland to Florida. MR. HOWARD ("Bill" to most of us) entered the Service in 1934 as Assistant Wildlife Technician assigned to State Park activities in Michigan, his first work centering at Wilderness State Park. He later became Regional Wildlife Technician in old Region Five (Indianapolis) and came to Richmond during the reregionalization of 1936. He has been identified closely with the biological studies conducted by the Service at Cape Hatteras National Seashore Project. Ducks and geese are his preferred meat.

DICKERSON

The Regional wildlife position was filled on October 8 by DR. LAURENCE M. DICKERSON, who brigs to the Service a wide experience and broad education in the biological field. Born in Ohio 39 years ago, he received his early education in that state and in Virginia. He received his baccalureate in 1934 at the College of William and Mary, taught scientific subjects in Virginia and West Virginia, and then pursued advanced studies at the University of Virginia where he won a Master's (1929) and a Doctorate (1930). Professor of Biology for five years at Cumberland University of Tennessee, he entered the Service in 1935 as Assistant Wildlife Technician. He be came an Associate, was transferred later to the Oklahoma City Regional Office, then, in 1937, was assigned to the San Francisco (Region Four) Office and was active in biological studies carried out in California State Parks. He is the author of numerous articles in scientific publications such as The Condor and The Journal of Heredity.

JAMES O. STEVENSON (known in the Region as "Jim the Butch") has taken up his new duties as Assistant Manager at Aransas Migratory Waterfowl Refuge, near Corpus Christi, Texas, administered by the Bureau of Biological Survey. Like MR. HOWARD, MR. STEVENSON is recognized as an ornitoholgist with special interests in the comings and goings of waterfowl. He formerly was attached to the Washington Office.

DR. A. R. KELLY, Associate Archeologist formerly assigned to Ocmulgee National Monument, Georgia, has entered on duty as Chief of the Archeologic Sites Division in Washington. Functions of the new division are coordination of administrative, research, planning, and interpretive programs concerning archeologic sites; direction of the survey of archeologic sites, and assistance in liaison activities outside the Service as they relate to conservation of those sites.

ROY EDGAR APPLEMAN, who has been Acting Regional Historian, has received appointment as Regional Supervisor of Historic Sites.

DR. CHARLES W. PORTER, Assistant Historian assigned to the Richmond Office since June 1935, has been notified of his transfer to Washington where he will head the Division of Interpretation and Development in the Branch of Historic Sites.

MALCOLM E. GARDNER has been designated Acting Superintendent of the Natchez Trace Parkway Project with headquarters in Jackson, Mississippi.

RALSTON B. LATTIMORE, Acting Superintendent of Fort Pulaski National Monument, Georgia, represented the Service in estimating costs of restoration of historic buildings in Charleston, S. C., damaged by the September hurricane.

JOHN A. SACHSE, first Curator of the Museum Division of the Service, died in a Washington hospital on August 30. Mr. Sachse developed the plan for the Fort McHenry museum and, among ether contributions, classified the arms collection at Morristown National Historical Park.