4 ANIMAL ECOLOGY 



meeting fresh things and fresh situations, to which he has to 

 adapt his material and mental equipment. This is con- 

 spicuously true of our subject, and is one of the greatest 

 attractions of ecology to the student who is at once eager, 

 imaginative, and determined. To the lover of prescribed 

 routine methods with the certainty of ^^^ safe ' results the study 

 of ecology is not to be recommended." ^^^ 



