Correspondence, 1945-1964

File — Box: 1, Folder: 1

Identifier: I

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

These few pieces of correspondence concern Woodbury's research and writing. They show the broad spectrum of his professional interest but reveal nothing of his private life.

1945. May 18. [Dave] to Woodbury.
In this short postcard Dave (no last name given) describes the technique used by Nathan Galloway to run the rapids of the Colorado River.
1945. May 19. Woodbury to Bessie Woolley.
Woodbury requests the given names for Major McKinnon, Lord Ingram, and Lord Milmey who traveled with Buffalo Bill to the Kanab Plateau in 1891. Woodbury needs this information for his history of Southern Utah. The file contains no reply.
1947. September 16. Jack Major to Woodbury.
Major questions Woodbury on the variation in biotic communities, particularly in pigmy forests.
1947. September 20. Woodbury to Major.
Woodbury answers Major's difficult questions by explaining the concept of biotic complexes and relative variation.
1948. May 27. F. W. Preston to Woodbury.
Mr. Preston of Preston Laboratories in Butter, Pennsylvania, shares some of his observations on the wood tortoise.
1958. October 15. William L. Reavley to Dr. Stanley L. Cain.
Mr. Reavely, of the National Wildlife Federation requests that Dr. Woodbury be allowed to testify on the Wilderness Bill under the auspices of the Ecological Society of America, of which Dr. Cain is President.
1958. October 27. Thomas Park to William L. Reavley.
Mr. Park, the new President of the Ecological Society of America agrees to endorse Dr. Woodbury as a competent ecologist but declines to sponsor his testimony.
1958. November 3. Woodbury to Senator James E. Murray.
This letter transmits Dr. Woodbury's statement on the Wilderness Bill (SB 4028) which he wishes to be read into the record on the November 12 hearings in Salt Lake City. In the enclosed statement, Dr. Woodbury agrees with the general objectives of the bill and offers only minor modifications.
1964. January 20. Letter-to-the-Editor, Salt Lake Tribune.
Dr. Woodbury briefly explains the concept of evolution in order to clarify inaccurate comments in a Public Forum letter of January 18.

Dates

1945-1964

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