THE FLORIDA FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS ROYAL PALM STATE PARK MRS. W.S. JENNINGS, Chairman - 1845 Main St., Jacksonville November 12, 1934. Governor Dave Sholtz, Tallahassee, Fla. My dear Governor Sholtz: Some time ago in talking over the Everglades National Park Commission with Mrs. A.G. Cummer, who has been greatly interested from the first, I asked if she would permit us to present her name to you for appointment, and if appointed would she serve. She said that she preferred not to be on the Commission, that she did not believe she could give the measure of service needed. But she recommended very highly a Mr. Albert G. Kay, Palm Beach. He has the Kay Experimental Gardens, is very wealthy and a great friend of Dr. David Fairchild. Mrs. Cummer said he could do so much more than she. Dr. David Fairchild, as you know, was the first President of Everglades National Park Association, and has done valued services for years toward bringing about proper notice to that part of the Country. He is a former Chief of the U.S. Plant Bureau, and is the U.S. Explorer who imports rare plants into the U.S. for the Government. About a year ago he returned from a three year trip in different parts of the world with importations to his credit of about 1400 new kinds of plant life for the United States. A great many of these are being tried out at Chapman Field. He has a home at Coconut Grove. For more than a year now he has been very sick but is mich better. He votes in Washington, D.C., and for that reason would not be eligible on the Florida Everglades National Park Commission, but I believe that of all persons, that he should be made an honorary member of the Commission. If it has not been for his constant advice we never would have been able to convince people of the great value of Royal Palm State Park and that portion of the Country. He had the Economist Botanist make a [survey] of the plant life for the Government, which was published in the Smithsonian Journal. He, also, caused to be made, a survey of bird and animal life by Biological Bureau by Arthur Howell, which was, also published. Dr. Fairchild is a brother-in-law of Mr. Gilbert H. Grosvenor, Editor of the Geographic. He did valiant service for the passage of the Everglades National Park Bill. Another person who should be considered in an honorary capacity is Mrs. Thomas A. Edison, Ft. Myers and West Orange, N.J. She lined up every senator and congressman in New Jersey and those she knew elsewhere in favor of the Bill. (Over)