Past Presidents: Henry B.F. MacFarland Charles D. Walcott Herbert Hoover George Bird Grinnell Wallace W. Atwood National Officers Cloyd Heck Marvin President Nicholas Murray Butler Vice-President John Barton Payne Vice-President David White Vice-President Henry Baldwin Ward Vice-President Robert Sterling Yard Editor of Publications Joshua Evans, Jr. Treasurer Paul V. Rogers General Council James Ernest Gillis Secretary-Asst. Treasurer Board of Trustees Amer. Assn. for the Advancement of Science Otis William Caldwell American Association of Adult Education Morse A. Cartwright Amer. Association of University Professors H.W. Tyler American Automobile Association Ernest N. Smith American Council on Education Charles Riborg Mann American Federation of Arts Frederic Allen Whiting American Forestry Association William P. Wharton American Library Association Carl H. Milam American Ornithologists' Union Theodore S. Palmer American Society of Landscape Architects Frederick Law Olmsted American Society of Mammalogists Remington Kellogg American Society of Naturalists Guy N. Collins Appalachian Mountain Club John B. May Archaeological Institute of America Arthur Stanley Riggs Botanical Society of America Frederick V. Coville Boy Scouts of America James E. West Colorado Mountain Club George H. Harvey, Jr. Ecological Society of America Victor Ernest Shelford Garden Club of America Mrs. William A. Lockwood General Federation of Women's Clubs Mrs. H.G. Bogart Geological Society of America David White Izaak Walton League of America Henry Baldwin Ward National Academy of Sciences James McKeen Cattell Nat. Advisory Council on Radio in Education Levering Tyson Nat. Association of Audubon Societies T. Gilbert Pearson National Research Council Vernon Kellogg Sierra Club Duncan McDuffie Truman Abbe Horace Albright Albert W. Atwood Wallace W. Atwood Henry de Forest Clarence Phelps Dodge Joshua Evans, Jr. Francis M. Goodwin Lee F. Hanmer Caspar W. Hodgson Walter Bruce Howe F.W. Lafrentz Cloyd Heck Marvin John C. Merriam Robert Marshall George D. Pratt George E. Scott Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman Huston Thompson Fred E. Wright Robert Sterling Yard Executive Committee Cloyd Heck Marvin, Chairman Horace Albright Albert W. Atwood Wallace W. Atwood Morse A. Cartwright Henry W. de Forest Francis M. Goodwin Caspar W. Hodgson Robert Marshall Henry Baldwin Ward William P. Wharton Robert Sterling Yard The National Parks Association National Offices 700 Twentieth Street Washington, D.C. 22 June 1934 Hon. David Sholtz, Governor of Florida, Tallahassee, Florida. My dear Governor Sholtz: On June 30th the President of the United States signed the Enabling Act which permits the creation of the Everglades National Park. The National Parks Association was glad to have its very small part in helping in the passage of this bill. Its membership now have turned their eyes toward the realization of this great project which will help round out the great national parks program of the nation. The Association wants to be of such service as it can in helping those who are now entrusted with this outstanding project. In a discussion of our executive committee it evolved that the next step must be the appointment of an appropriate commission by the Governor of Florida. This letters is being written to tell you of our interest in this next step, for we shall deem it a privilege to work with a strong body of men such as you shall appoint. I think it is not inappropriate to say to you that everything will depend upon the type of commission that shall be appointed, and we shall await your naming of this body so that we may have the privilege of supporting it in any way that it is possible for us to support it. It would be unfair for me to write this letter to you without mentioning the splendid work that has been done by Senator Fletcher and Representative Wilcox. And again this letter would not carry a true statement as to helpfulness without mentioning the name of Ernest Coe. Again let me assure you on behalf of our organization of our sincere interest in the realization of the Everglades National Park. Yours very truly, [signature] Cloyd H. Marvin, President.