

THE IMPORTANCE OF SYSTEMATICS IN LIMNOLOGY 



AND OCEANOGRAPHY 



(Extension of Remarks before Berkeley Meeting of American Society 

 of Limnology and Oceanography, December, 1954) 



By 



Joel W. Hedgpeth 

 Scripps Institution of Oceanography 



"I have always felt that each working naturalist owes it 

 as a duty to science to produce some general systematic work 



• • • 



Alfred Goldsborough Mayer, 

 Medusae of the World, 1910 



"Never more than in this present day when experimental 

 research has gained so wide and lasting, and, on the whole, 

 beneficient a hold in biology, has there been need of fidelity 

 to description and classification." 



Wm. E. Ritter (1916) 



"This widespread need for taxonomy (or some kind of de- 

 pendable system of biological classification) deserves more con- 

 sideration, especially sympathetic consideration, than it usually 



receives.'' 



W. E. Allen, Turtox News, April, 1941. 

 (Contribution No. 121, Scripps Institution 

 of Oceanography, New Series) 



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