Rhode Island Division of Fish and Game (MsG. 28)

The records of each of the three early agencies are grouped in separate series, with the Division of Fish and Game making up a fourth series. Materials which span the years surrounding 1935 are crossed-referenced between the Division of Fish and Game and the agency which initiated them. Within each series the the materials are arranged in four basic categories. 1) Financial Records, which include all formal and informal materials having to do with the fiscal operation of the agencies; 2) Business Records, which include all materials–minutes, correspondence, licenses, applications, reports of arrest, and so on–having to do with the normal transaction of each agencies functions; 3) Published Matter, which includes not only such formal publications as annual reports, but also new clippings, reprints of research brochures, and other related items, along with lecture notes and texts of addresses; and 4) Appended Materials, which include maps and charts, plats, photographs and glass negatives, blueprints, and one shell.