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Professor G.R.Wieland
Yale university
New Haven, Conn.

Dear Sir:

We have read with interest dispatches regarding the proposed museum for the Cycad national forest, near Edgemont. We are glad it is planned, as we take an active part in anything pertaining to the development of the Black Hills, especially of its natural resources or treasures.

I hope that you will keep us informed of any developments in the plans, and let us know if you intend to visit this section this summer. I would also be glad to have your picture or a cut or mat, for use if you should visit the Hills again, or in connection with the next story about the museum.

At your pleasure, I would appreciate having a little more detail regarding the museum, how it happened to be planned, approximate size, etc. Anything we can do to further your plans in that regard, we should be more than glad to do.

Thanking you in advance for your consideration, I remain,

PS--It just occurred to me that you are the professor of whom my brother-in-law, Harry Rolfs, has spoken often, as to interesting and education times he has had with you on location near Edgemont. He is employed by the park service and has been stationed at Wind Cave, but has also been loaned to the CCC for different jobs. I believe he was in your camp at various times.

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UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
WASHINGTON

MAY 19 1937

Dr. G. R. Wieland,
Yale University,
New Haven, Connecticut.

Dear Dr. Wieland:

In reply to your telegram of May 13, Superintendent Freeland of Wind Cave National Park has been advised of the importance of the collection of fossils excavated from Fossil Cycad National Monument. The collection is now in his custody at Wind Cave and I am sure that he will keep it intact.

The only question pertaining to this collection which has arisen is the possibility of replacing a specimen loaned to the National Park Service by the President of the Chamber of Commerce. Your recent letter to him on the subject will no doubt prompt him to take a reasonable attitude in the matter.

HUGO L. BLACK, ALA., CHAIRMAN

ROYAL S. COPELAND, N. Y.

DAVID I. WALSH, MASS.

ELBERT D. THOMAS, UTAH

JAMES E. MURRAY, MONT.

VIC DONAHEY, OHIO

RUSH D. HOLT, W. VA.

CLAUDE PEPPER, FLA.

ALLEN J. ELLENDER, LA.

JOSH LEE, OKLA.

WILLIAM E. BORAH, IDAHO

ROBERT M. LAFOLLETTE, JR. WIS.

JAMES J. DAVIS, PA.

KENNETH E. HAIGLER, CLERK

United States Senate

COMMITTEE ON
EDUCATION AND LABOR

May 20, 1937

Mr. G. R. Wieland
150 Osborn Botanical Laboratory
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

My dear Mr. Wieland:

Thank you for your letter of May 17 regarding
the "Fossil Cycad National Monument."

I appreciate your writing me and sending the
reprint from "Science" on the subject of this
monument.

United States Senate

COMMITTEE ON
AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY

May 20, 1937

ELLISON D. SMITH, S. C., CHAIRMAN
BURTON K. WHEELER, MONT.
GEORGE W. MORRIS, NEBR.
ELMER THOMAS, OKLA.
CHARLES L. MCNARY, OREG.
GEORGE MCGILL, KANS.
ARTHUR CAPPER, KANS.
JOHN H. BANKHEAD, ALA.
LYNN J. FRAZIER, N. DAK.
W. J. BULOW, S. DAK.
HATTIE W. CARAWAY, ARK.
JAMES P. POPE, IDAHO
THEODORE G. BILBO, MISS.
CARL A. HATCH, N. MEX.
A. HARRY MOORE, N. J.
BILBO, MISS.
LEWIS B. SCHWELLENBACH, WASH.
GUY M. GILLETTE, IOWA
ALLEN J. ELLENDER, LA.
HENRY SHIPSTEAD, MINN.
C. A. LAWTON, CLERK

Dr. G. R. Wieland
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

Dear Dr. Wieland:

I have your letter of May 17th with
respect to the development of the "Fossil Cycad National
Monument" in the Black Hills. I read with much interest
the statement which accompanied your letter. There can
be no doubt that this project has great historical and
scientific value. Since it is located in the Black
Hills country, however, it would seem to me that any
legislation presented in connection with it should be
offered by a member of the House or Senate from South
Dakota. I assume, of course, that you have the matter
up with the members from that state. If such a bill
is presented I shall give it my very careful considera-
tion.

With kind regards, I am

UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
WASHINGTON

May 22, 1937

Dr. G. R. Wieland,
Osborn Botanical Laboratory,
Yale University,
New Haven, Connecticut.

Dear Dr. Wieland:

It is quite evident from recent letters that you have
been considerably perturbed over correspondence from Mr.
Parks. Mr. Parks has a valid complaint because it is true
that a specimen which he was good enough to loan the Service
was actually lost. It seems to us that there are many places
where additional specimens of cycads can be obtained and we
hope that the controversy can be settled so as to give you
satisfaction.

It is quite apparent that you are an aggressive guardian
of scientific specimens, and we anticipate that you will find
the National Park Service equally interested in handling
scientific specimens so that they will be properly safe-guarded
and protected.

YALE UNIVERSITY
NEW HAVEN · CONNECTICUT

SECRETARY'S OFFICE

May 24, 1937

Dear Sir:

The President wishes to have the bibliography of the officers and faculty of the University compiled for the current year. Books and articles of an original and scholarly character should be included in the list. He suggests that it will not be necessary to report new editions or reprints except in cases of extensive revision, articles and book reviews in popular magazines and newspapers, and edited publications which the editor merely oversees.

Work written in collaboration will be listed once, together with an indication of joint authorship, under the author whose name appears first on the title page. Cross references will be made under the name of the other collaborators.

The Bibliography will be compiled from the material which you submit. You are asked to indicate on the enclosed card the number of blanks you wish sent to you or to state that you have no publications to report. Blank forms will be sent to you promptly and you are asked to send in your final report not later than July 1.

Secretary

June 7, 1937: Bib. President's Rep. '36-'37

G.R.Wieland, Osborn Bot. Lab.-

(1) Cycadoid Investigations and Field Work. Carnegie Institute of Technology. Year Book No. 35, 1935-6, pp. 333-340.

(2) Fossil Cycad National Monument, "SCIENCE", March 19, 1937, pp. 287-289.

[During the year some laboratory work on cycadoids including in-situ specimens from Fossil Cycad National Monument, and much attention to furthering plan of the proposed Field development there.]

ROYAL S. COPELAND, N. Y., CHAIRMAN
MORRIS SHEFFARD, TEX.
JOSIAH WILLIAM BAILEY, N. C.
HATTIE W. CARAWAY, ARK.
BENNETT CHAMP CLARK, MO.
JOHN H. OVERTON, LA.
THEODORE G. BILBO, MISS.
VIC DONAHEY, OHIO
JOSEPH F. GUFFEY, PA.
FRANCIS T. MALONEY, CONN.
GEORGE L. RADCLIFFE, MD.
CLAUDE PEPPER, FLA.
JOSH LEE, OKLA.
GEORGE L. BERRY, TENN.

CHARLES L. MCNARY, OREG.
HIRAM W. JOHNSON, CALIF.
GERALD P. NYE, N. DAK.
ARTHUR H. VANDENBERG, MICH.
WALLACE H. WHITE, JR., MAINE
ERNEST W. GIBSON, VT.

GRACE MC ELDOWNEY, CLERK
ROGER WILLIAMSON, ASST. CLERK

United States Senate

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

June 3, 1937

Dear Doctor Wieland:

It seems to me that a bill to develop the Fossil
Cycad National Monument in the Black Hills of South Dakota,
would better be introduced in the Congress by one of the
Senators from that State, or by the Representative in whose
district the proposed monument is located.

I am, of course, very much interested in your
proposal. As a matter of courtesy I believe this is a
matter for Senator Bulow and Representative Francis H. Case
to undertake.

I happen to know that Representative Case has had
some correspondence with the National Park Service concerning
this matter and Mr. Demarey, the Director, is not very favor-
ably impressed with the location or with what it has to offer
as a national monument. It further seems that until Mount
Rushmore is completed it will be very difficult to get addi-
tional government funds for any project in South Dakota, and
particularly one within a few miles of Rushmore.

I shall be glad to assist in furthering this bill,
but, as I said, I think it is a matter for Senator Bulow's
consideration first.

Doctor G. R. Wieland,
Yale University,
150 Osborn Botanical Laboratory,
New Haven, Connecticut.

Copy plus notes, (Not in the other letters of course),
YALE UNIVERSITY
NEW HAVEN CONNECTICUT

It was horribly careless of some one in your
department to give casual permission to
take selected specimens from the FCUM
in situ material it's
WIELAND - FOSSIL CYCAD NATIONAL MONUMENT

permission at my insistence withdrawn, June 9, 1937
and left for me to determine if I am
afraid much mischief is already done,
I only learned of the nousekse
by accident. Wieland

Dear Senator,

On May 17 I wrote personally to all the Senators about this Black Hills plan, sending at the same time inclosures outlining in brief its entirely unique features. As I expected, it was very generally understood that I took this method of getting to the front (in the hope of early action) a subject which lagged in the files of the Interior Department too long. Besides, Secretary Ickes had told me himself that some such action was not improper, - there was no law against it!

I am glad to tell you that while I expected that perhaps a third of the Senators might find time for a brief reply, more have answered, and that the treatment accorded by the group seems very considerate and constructive indeed. Of course I wrote specially to the Senators from South Dakota. Though because of the loss of Senator Norbeck who was in full sympathy with the plans, and because of the project being in their State, they naturally could not come to such an immediate decision.

As this subject stands today, I favor the passage of such a BILL as I have written, and herewith inclose. If some one said twice that much money I would doubt the wisdom of it. On the contrary, however, if some one else, whether from the more general reasonableness of figures, or more severe estimates were to say that instead of the $95,000 suggested, all that can now be held allowable would be $50,000, I should have a care about how I urged objection.

Perhaps the greatest difficulty is water! But it is there, in easy reach and
Senator Norbeck having been a well-digger (!) wasn't worried about such a trifle at
all; and there was the MONUMENT, the most wonderful petrified forest of its kind on
the globe, just where NATURE put it. And on edge Forest Reserve too!

I fault the PARKS and MONUMENTS Bureau for not having proceeded to acquire the
submarginal lands up to ONE SQUARE MILE, - an increase of 240 acres which could
easily be had, and which was quite some while ago advised.

A LAST HARD WORD ON LOCATION: The ancient group of flowering plants so wonder-
fully displayed at the MONUMENT in an unparalleled perfection and abundance and
there fully demonstrated for the first time, had remained an enigma to Science for
a hundred years. Now the group as the result of our studies is an "open book".
Its value has become educational. HENCE, there would be no reason for setting up a
display somewhere else, whether two miles or a thousand miles away, unless perhaps
in the "Cross Timbers" country of Erath County, Texas, where a few specimens occur.
One I named after Albert Sidney Johnston, the heroic figure of Shiloh, who had led
an unresting life and carried his copy of Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology in
his saddle pockets!

South Dakota

AN ENABLING ACT OF CONGRESS purposed to aid THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE under the DIRECTION of the SECRETARY of the INTERIOR in ADEQUATELY DEVELOPING the unusual PUBLIC and SCIENTIFIC VALUES of the FOSSIL CYCAD NATIONAL MONUMENT of the Southwestern Black Hills of South Dakota, as set aside by PROCLAMATION of the President of the United States of America, Warren G. Harding, October twenty-first, in the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, or of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-seventh.

WHEREAS, therefore, in the first instance it having been recognized that this Monument included rarely rich Mesozoic deposits of completely petrified cycads with yet other features of great scientific interest, and the exact facts and conditions having been absolutely proven by excavations carried out on the Monument mesa itself with the aid of CCC labor and the National Park Service during the month of November, 1935 resulting in the recovery of an *in situ* collection of the cycads of a hitherto unexampled beauty and interest; and

WHEREAS, since this material requires the elaboration and display on the Monument itself as originally planned, there is no longer reason for delay and there is now made available for this purpose under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior and the National Park Service as provided in the act of Congress to establish such a Service, and for other purposes (39 Stat. 535), with acts additional thereto or amendatory thereof, the sum of NINETY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS to be expended approximately as follows:

(1) For a Roadway leading in from the so-called Atlantic-Yellowstone-Pacific Highway to the Northeastern corner of the present Monument area, and thence along the site of a proposed lodge and over the main mesa by the site of the planned Field Museum to an exit on the Southwest corner,

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being in all a distance of about one mile and a half, the sum of seven thousand dollars.

(2) For a suitable bridge across a deep ravine best traversed by the preceding proposed highway, the sum of three thousand dollars.

(3) For the proposed guest, student and visitor's lodge, with development of water supply for lodge and museum, the sum of twenty thousand dollars (items being Water $5,000, Lodge, $15,000).

(4) For the erection of a simple but substantial, and lasting FIELD MUSEUM on the main Mesa front as planned, the sum of fifty thousand dollars.

(5) For preparation, installation and display of exhibit of the cycads with illustration of the meaning of the phenomenon of petrifaction, the sum of twelve thousand dollars.

(6) For low set obelisks marking the geologic divisions and horizons about the Museum, and for the tasteful care of the immediately surrounding grounds, the sum of three thousand dollars, - the sum total provided for the several purposes enumerated in the present Act being as stated NINETY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS; while finally it is understood that the future care of this monument will be provided for by the monies Congress has already set aside for Parks and Monuments, or will set aside for such and related worthy purposes.

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Thus is it seen that the BILL I suggest would lead to the finer results, the
surest economy with the finest gain. So sure of myself on these points am I that
I beg you and every other Senator to oppose to the uttermost now or hereafter even
the slightest suggestion of a development somewhere else than on the monument it-
self. Rather the _in situ_ material should be returned here to Yale where the subject
has had a unit study, and I should be returned my Homestead Law equity on the
Monument 360 acres. It is a source of excessive regret to me that one Black Hills
citizen cared so little for this splendid project in his region that he would have
been willing to see some of the fine _in situ_ materials of November, 1935, taken
little above what I would regard as theft. However the people of the Black Hills
generally favor the plans and the Rapid City Daily Journal has given them much
publicity, as has the Press of the entire country.

If the Senators from the Black Hills permitted, I think it would be fine to go
out of the usual routine and have this BILL BROUGHT forward by Senators James J.
Davis of Pennsylvania and Royal S. Copeland of New York. Or Senator Sheppard of
Texas and Senator Capper of Kansas. From my many friendly replies I could give yet
other pairs.

WHILE, in the HOUSE, I would like to see the measure brought up by the Hon.
James A. Shanley of New Haven, who knows all the subject from the EVIDENCE through,
and the Hon. Ralph O. Brewster of Maine. Thanking you, Senator, for your courtesy
I remain,

Sincerely,

COPY is being forwarded
to Secretary Ickes' personal
assistant, Mr. Harry Slattery.

June 9, 1937

Dear Senator,

A LAST HARD WORD ON LOCATION! The ancient group of flowering plants so wonderfully displayed at the MONUMENT in an unparalleled perfection and abundance and there fully demonstrated for the first time, had remained an enigma to Science for a hundred years. Now the group as the result of our studies is an "open book". Its value has become educational. HENCE, there would be no reason for setting up a display somewhere else, whether two miles or a thousand miles away, unless perhaps in the "Cross Timbers" country of Erath County, Texas, where a few specimens occur. One I named after Albert Sidney Johnston, the heroic figure of Shiloh, who had led an unresting life and carried his copy of Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology in his saddle pockets!

June 10, 1937.

Dr. G. R. Wieland,
Osborn Botanical Laboratory,
New Haven, Connecticut.

Dear Dr. Wieland:

Your letter of May 31 addressed to Mr. Harry Slattery re-
garding the proposed museum at Fossil Cycad National Monument
has been given to me for attention. The Service wishes to ex-
press its appreciation for the architectural designs and for the
material which you have compiled.

We believe that this project should not be recommended at
this time for the reasons that other projects have precedence
and that an acceptable museum plan has not been prepared. This
in no way detracts from the importance or value of the project
you proposed, which will receive the consideration to which it
is entitled.

Before definite steps are taken to finance this project,
however, it is essential that a detailed plan of exhibits be
prepared. This will include specifications as to the number, de-
sign, and arrangement of display cases and specific information
relative to the specimens and descriptive texts which are to make
up the display. Your suggestions regarding such a plan will be
welcome and will hasten its accomplishment. Until this plan has
been prepared, however, the construction of the museum, roads,
and other facilities cannot be approved, inasmuch as the entire
use and development of this area is so closely related to the
presentation of the story of the monument.

THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
WASHINGTON

JUN 10 1937

Hon. Herbert E. Hitchcock,
United States Senate.

My dear Senator Hitchcock:

I have received your letter of May 27 to Secretary Ickes re-
garding the development of Fossil Cycad National Monument in South
Dakota.

The National Park Service of this Department appreciates the
scientific value of the fossil plants found at the monument and
has emphasized protection rather than development. Some areas are
more valuable to the scientist than to the visiting public. The
features available to the public are of a kind not easily under-
stood by all and special attention will be given to an exhibit plan.
Dr. Wieland has been asked to indicate how the story can be told by
the use of a museum display.

Until the number of visitors justifies more elaborate exhibits, it has been suggested that some fossil cycads be exposed in the rock and given proper protection against the weather and against vandalism. Such a plan has the advantage of affording a simple presentation without the high cost of maintenance.

It is doubtful whether so elaborate a museum as that suggested
by Dr. Wieland can be justified, either as to initial cost or subse-
quent maintenance. Funds are not now available for either the con-
struction of buildings or for custodial services. Should a plan be
developed for the presentation of the outstanding features of this
monument, we shall be glad to give consideration to ways and means
of accomplishment.

Sincerely, CHARLES WEST

Acting Secretary of the Interior.

FRANCIS CASE
2D DIST. SOUTH DAKOTA

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MINES AND MINING
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CLAIMS

Congress of the United States
House of Representatives

Washington, D. C.

August 13, 1937

Dear Dr. Wieland:

Enclosed is a letter I received from Mr. Demaray, answering particularly the suggestion that an inspection be made of the Fossil Cycad National Monument for the purpose of determining the extent and nature of the deposit.

You will note that Mr. Demaray says they have a policy formulated which they hope, with your co-operation, to develop for the presentation of a story to the public.

After receiving this letter I had quite a talk with Mr. Demaray about the whole matter. The policy for the immediate future is to exhibit some of the fossils at Wind Cave. I mentioned your suggestion of bringing them to the Osborne Botanical Laboratory to weigh, photograph and number specimens with the understanding they should go back to the Monument when it was ready to receive it.

Mr. Demaray stated, however, that since this was to be a matter of National Park administration, they felt that they should plan for the eventual construction of a museum at the Monument and, in the meantime, arrange for a display of specimens at the Wind Cave National Park, which is their nearest administrative point. There, they will be placed in a case and some of the employees of the Park Service will be available to assist in telling the story to the traveling public. I really think this is a step forward from just leaving the Monument in an undeveloped state, and then asked Mr. Demaray about the introduction of a bill to provide for the building of a museum, such as you have suggested.

Although it will not fit in with the budget plans immediately in sight, Mr. Demaray said he had no objection to the introduction of such a bill and it at least would get the matter into a definite state, so that a report can be prepared by the Department, pointing to eventual construction.

I know this isn't very rapid action, but it is the

July 29, 1937.

Honorable Francis Case,

House of Representatives.

My dear Mr. Case:

Reference is made to your letter of July 16 regarding de-
velopment and preservation of the petrified cycads at Fossil
Cycad National Monument.

We think that you will be pleased to learn that the recom-
mendation made in the last paragraph of your letter has already
been put into effect. In the fall of 1935, Dr. Wieland and rep-
resentatives of the National Park Service visited the monument
and made a series of excavations for the purpose of determining
the extent and nature of this unique deposit.

On the basis of these findings, the National Park Service
has established a policy for the preservation of these fossil
plants and hopes, with the cooperation of Dr. Wieland, to evolve
a plan for the presentation of their story to the public.

In duplicate.

OCT -4 1937

Dr. G. R. Nieland,
Osborn Botanical Laboratory,
Yale University,
New Haven, Connecticut.

My dear Dr. Nieland:

I have received your letter of September 18 with regard to H. R. 8247, introduced by Representative Case, entitled "A Bill To direct the Secretary of the Interior to develop the Fossil Cycad National Monument by construction of a field museum together with other necessary improvements for preservation and display of cycads, and to authorize an appropriation therefor".

This Department has not been called upon for a report by the House Public Lands Committee. Consideration will be given to your suggestions as stated in this and past correspondence on this subject in the event that a report is requested by the Committee.

October 5, 1937.

Dear Dr. Wieland:

Mr. Demaray has asked me to reply to your let-
ter of September 27, for he has just returned from
Europe and has a great accumulation of detail to
take care of.

Dr. Bryant is still in the field and I am occupy-
ing his desk, but after his return I am planning a visit
to the Osborn Botanical Laboratory at which time I hope
it will be possible for us to discuss the collection of
specimens which were obtained during the recent excava-
tion at Fossil Cycad National Monument. An attempt will
be made to arrive at some arrangement whereby this material
can be made available for you to conduct the scientific
studies which you have outlined.

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

WASHINGTON

May 13, 1938.

ADDRESS ONLY
THE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

Dear Dr. Wieland:

In reply to your letter of May 11, Mr. Rothrock is in the field on an inspection trip and Dr. Bryant is away until August, consequently I will be unable to visit New Haven before this fall. Several months ago, I arranged with Henry W. Lix, who is one of the park naturalists for the Service and a graduate student at Yale this year, to come to your laboratory and complete photographing the remaining material.

At the time Mr. Lix was in Washington, I ordered the necessary film but apparently the budget has gotten so low that the order was not placed. A letter came to hand this morning from Mr. Lix stating that he will finish his school work on May 21 and that he will take those photographs with personal film, if necessary, which can be replaced later. We are writing him a letter, a copy of which is enclosed, giving him a list of specimens which were overlooked. There was some misunderstanding in the records so that Mr. Rothrock thought that a key index which I had prepared between the laboratory accession number and the field number indicated that those specimens had been photographed. Mr. Lix will no doubt report at an early date and complete this work.

This office has corresponded on several occasions with Superintendent Freeland, and we are sure that he has forwarded all material which has been packed at Wind Cave. There would be no point in his keeping small insignificant specimens but I can understand how some small fragments might have been thrown out in packing the material, thinking they had no value. We have no indication that even this occurred. The Superintendent was anxious to keep one spectacular specimen and this he has very generously forwarded to you. All of us have an equal interest in this beautiful specimen and hope that in making the necessary cuts to section and determine this specimen these can be located in such a manner that they will not destroy its beauty for exhibit purposes later on when a museum is established.

October 25, 1941.

Dr. G.R. Wieland,
Osborn Botanical Laboratory,
Yale University,
New Haven, Connecticut.

Dear Doctor Wieland:

We shall appreciate it if you can send us for our National Park
Service library two copies of your article entitled "The Carpathian-
Black Hills Cycadoid Parallel," as reprinted from the American Journal
of Science, volume 239, July, 1941, pp. 523-532.

UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
REGION TWO
OMAHA, NEBRASKA

October 27, 1941

Unofficial Correspondence

Dear Dr. Wieland:

I am glad to receive your letter of October 17. Please accept my thanks for your two papers,

Cycadoid Investigations with Respect to Fossil
Cycad National Monument

The Carpathian Black Hills Cycadoid Parallel
which I shall read with much interest.

FRANCIS CASE

20 Dist. SOUTH DAKOTA

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10-30-1941

Dr. G. R. Wieland
Osborn Botanical Laboratory
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

Dear Dr. Wieland:

Re: FOSSIL CYCAD NATIONAL MONUMENT

I am very glad to be able to send you the inclosed letter from Mr. Demaray, Acting Director of the National Park Service, advising that his recent visit to the Fossil Cycad area has resulted in the preparation of plans for a suitable museum administration building.

You will note that as soon as the drawings have been completed in the Regional Office, they will be sent to Washington, at which time Mr. Demaray will discuss them with me.

You can be sure that at such a time, I will advise you in the hope that we can work out a program for action that will be agreeable to everybody.

With kindest regards.

FC/MMS

inclosure

May 8, 1942.

Dear Doctor Wieland:

Your letter of April 14 and the two autographed reprints of your fossil cycad articles are acknowledged with thanks. We should like to be more encouraging in regard to your suggestions for development of Fossil Cycad National Monument. However, until after the war we cannot hope for an opportunity to proceed with a number of developments in National Park Service areas, among them development of Fossil Cycad National Monument. When the situation is favorable for planning facilities for the area, we shall want your advice.

An illustrated, non-technical description of the scientific values of Fossil Cycad National Monument would be of value. While we should welcome your manuscript, we could give you no assurance of having it published until after the war. Our printing program has been reduced to include nothing but bare essentials. Should you be willing to place a manuscript in our hands knowing that there may be long delay in publication we shall be very glad to hold it for possible use when National Park Service activities are resumed on a normal basis.

We appreciate your continued interest in the success of our scientific and interpretive programs.