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ZOOLOGY IN AMERICA. 



By Pkofessor T. D. A. COCKERELL, 



EAST LAS VEGAS, NEW MEXICO. 



THE articles in the North American Review of January and Febru- 

 ary on the condition of science in America have naturally aroused 

 a good deal of attention, but no attempt seems to have been made to 

 determine our exact position in any one branch of science. Feeling 

 that the criticisms offered did not apply justly to American zoology, I 

 sought to obtain more exact data upon the subject. Fortunately we 

 have the annual volume of the Zoological Record, which enumerates 

 very fully the zoological contributions of each year, omitting only 

 those which are of little or no value. This work, ably edited by Dr. D. 

 Sharp, is published by the Zoological Society of London, and therefore 

 cannot be suspected of enumerating an undue proportion of American 

 articles. As a matter of fact, it errs somewhat in omitting several 

 works published in this country, which cannot easily be obtained in 

 London; while no doubt its list of European writings is very complete. 

 The latest volume of the Zoological Record to hand contains the 

 titles for 1900, including also a small proportion of papers accidentally 

 omitted from previous volumes. I have extracted from this volume 

 the following data : 



