34 ANIMAL LIFE AND SOCIAL GROWTH 



about the whole community and its environs and 

 make more or less casual observations or collec- 

 tions in regions or of specimens that seemed to 

 him to be interesting or otherwise important. 



The main part of the collecting would be done, 

 however, at the regularly constituted stations, 

 at more or less regular collecting intervals and 

 with some sort of standardized collecting appara- 

 tus. As time limitations were imposed by other 

 responsibilities and as the magnitude of the task 

 became apparent, we might expect to find certain 

 stations neglected and others dropped altogether 

 from the collecting rounds. 



The collections so gained would consist mainly 

 of different sorts of white men with a scattering 

 record of other races and of other animals such as 

 dogs, cats, monkeys, and other domestic or lab- 

 oratory animals, a few wild birds and many more 

 cockroaches, silverfishes and the like, with occa- 

 sionally, perhaps, some insects more intimately 

 associated with man. These collections would be 

 suitably tagged and pickled, roughly classified 

 into easily recognized groups and sent to the ap- 

 propriate specialists, who in due time and after 

 appropriate tactful stimulation, would report 

 the scientific name of each. After comparison 

 with field notes and after a study of the usually 

 lamentably meager published records of habits 



