THE CONTRIBUTORS

DONALD C. HAZLETT, an Indianan, specialized in geology at the University of Illinois and at Oberlin College. After entering the Service at Washington in 1935, he became District Geologist attached to the Cincinnati office. In that capacity he investigated many miles of the dark avenues of Mammoth Cave, penetrating passages which few men have seen. He now is Assistant Inspector assigned to the proposed Cape Hatteras National Seashore, with headquarters at Manteo, N. C. He recently was elected to membership in the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

GERALD H. HYDE, born 36 years ago in Massachusetts, has been Inspector in New England since July, 1936, but before that time he had served as Associate Landscape Architect. He attended Massachusetts State, is known as Jerry, and long has been a victim of photography in its chronic stage.

CARL P. RUSSELL will end his duties this month as Regional Director and transfer to Washington to assume his new post as Supervisor of Research and Information. Besides his authorship of a volume of Yosemite, his contributions to scientific journals long have been known throughout the Service. Who's Who in America, Vol. 19, P. 2121, says of him, in part: "b. Fall River, Wis., Jan. 18, 1894. . .Engaged in cytological investigations, 1915-17; herpetology studies with Dr. Louis Rule, Nat. Mus. France, 1919;. . .Nat. Park Service since 1923, field naturalist supervising museum developments, 1929-33; in charge of museum program, Eastern Parks, 1934; chief of museum division, 1935; ecological studies Yosemite and Yellowstone National Parks, 1923-32; original research in museum methods with Dr. H. C. Bumpus, museums of Eastern U. S., parts of yrs. 1928-31; research in history, Yosemite region, 1923-38; park naturalist in charge of ednl. program Yosemite National Park, 1923-29. . 1st lt. 8th Inf., U. S. A., 1918-19 (overseas) . . ."

R. A. WALKER, a native South Carolinian, entered the Forest Service of his state five years ago as engineer in charge of CCC construction in the southeastern district. Since 1935 he has been Assistant State Forester and head of the newly created Division of State Parks. A graduate of The Citadel, he became a plant engineer in Charleston and served later with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in the Carolinas, Virginia and Maryland.