. C. Hart Merriam papers : including correspondence, papers relating to career with the United States Biological Survey, 1798-1972 (bulk 1871-1942). United States. Division of Ornithology and Mammalogy; United States. Division of Biological Survey; United States. Biological Survey; United States. Bureau of Biological Survey; Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U. S. ); Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899); Bering Sea controversy; Bears; Biogeography; Natural history; Ornithology; Botany; Life zones; Wildlife conservation. 'i^ I 'i 1^ jl- VI oos May 1. 1919. Dear Doctor Eyermann
. C. Hart Merriam papers : including correspondence, papers relating to career with the United States Biological Survey, 1798-1972 (bulk 1871-1942). United States. Division of Ornithology and Mammalogy; United States. Division of Biological Survey; United States. Biological Survey; United States. Bureau of Biological Survey; Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U. S. ); Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899); Bering Sea controversy; Bears; Biogeography; Natural history; Ornithology; Botany; Life zones; Wildlife conservation. 'i^ I 'i 1^ jl- VI oos May 1. 1919. Dear Doctor Eyermann: Replying to your letter of April 25^ will say that I have juBt asked the Secretary of the Geographic Boards Mr* Chas. 3* SloanSj to send you the last published fall report of the Board containing rulings to 1916^ together with a set of the Bore recent rulings, and trust that you will receive them in the very near future. The abbreviation •Calif*• instead of •Cal*' wss adopted by the Board for several entirely distinct reasons» the most pncticex of iriiich IBS ^i^ the purpose of iMSenimg the missending of a multitude of letters annually, owing to the impossibility of dis- tinguishing •Cal*' from •Col.* in the hand-writing of very many people* This change was urgently requested by the Railway Postal Service men, but was profs^ented by me to the Board and adopted before I was aware of the action of the Railway Mail handlers. 9uthermore, the abbreviation 'Calif.• was believed to be more dignified than 'Cal*'—which I, in comraon with many others, regard as a degradation to the Golden State. 'Calif*' connotes the full name of the State, and carries its feeling, which certainly cannot be said of 'Cal.' You wonder why the Board did not change the abbreviation 'Col*' for Colorado to 'Colo*' One reason is that the matter has i '•;• » t 6 I. k •V ? 301 B«W«B«—»2» not y*t been brought before the Board; another la that 'Colo.* ia open to jreciaely the aan
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