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biologists should also be roused by the sea, the country 

 having a coastal line of more than 3,000 kilometers, 

 whereas its breadth is in most part quite small. 



"The great traditions given by such zoologists as Johan 

 Ernst Gunnerus, Michael Sars, and Georg Ossian Sars, 

 have naturally put their stamp on Norwegian biology, and 

 the most important biological contributions are naturally 

 connected with marine research." 



Likewise in Canada, considering biology as it applies to 

 economics and industry, we find that the most important 

 effort mentioned is the cooperative development by the 

 Canadian universities of economic fisheries research, in- 

 cluding the formation of the Biological Board of Canada, 

 and the establishment of marine laboratories. Saunder's 

 work on Marquis wheat has made ''millions for Canada," 

 and better still, it has created the atmosphere of economic 

 adjustment of plants and animals to northern environ- 

 ments. The production of Marquis wheat, a pure example 

 of the older selective breeding, was the direct response 

 of a practical-minded man to solve a particular Canadian 

 or northern-American problem of high yield and short 

 season. 



In the United States and in other countries, where many 

 new types of plants have been imported, an international 

 exchange of both useful and deleterious insects has been 

 made. Entomological work of ascertaining "which is 

 which" and trying to bring back that much-needed bal- 

 ance in nature which keeps plants in good health and 



