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lation of policy. Several aspects of this question are considered at 

 greater length in Chapter X. 



ORGANIZATION 



Organizations for zoological work as understood here can be 

 visualized as directed towards two objects, first for scientific work 

 in the accurate identifying of animals, in animal ecology and kin- 

 dred subjects, and secondly for conserving and controlling game 

 animals and vermin. For the first of these purposes museums and 

 certain universities are the principal centres, and for the second 

 there are game departments or similar organizations in the several 

 territories. These two aspects are considered for all the territories. 



BRITISH^ 



In Great Britain, the British Museum {Natural History) in London, 

 under the direction of Dr. C. Forster Cooper, with Mr. M. A. C. 

 Hinton as Keeper of Zoology, is the principal centre for studies 

 in systematic zoology. Specimens are sent to the museum from 

 all over the world for identification by the numerous specialists, 

 some of whom do a good deal of advisory and other work in addi- 

 tion to pure taxonomy. From time to time expeditions are sent into 

 the field by the museum or are partly financed by it in order to 

 enrich the national collections, and the museum undertakes the 

 publication of many results of research. 



The Zoological Society of London, under the Presidency of the Earl 

 of Onslow and the Secretaryship of Dr. Julian S. Huxley, has the 

 largest collection in the world of living African animals, and a 

 considerable amount of research is undertaken, particularly con- 

 cerning parasites, since every death at the London Zoo is followed 

 by a full post-mortem examination. The Transactions and Pro- 

 ceedings of the Society contain many papers on African fauna. 



The Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire, under the 

 Presidency of Lord Onslow, does valuable work in stressing the 

 conservation rather than the control of game, and in creating pub- 



^ Sir Henry Miers and S. F. Markham (1932) produced a report on the museums 

 and art galleries of British Africa. This has been valuable in compiling part of this 

 section, but additional information from the territories concerned has been incor- 

 porated. 



