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have by no means confined their studies to the fauna of Indiana; indeed, 

 their work on the animals of Indiana has been largely merely incidental to 

 their studies of the larger problems of systematic zoology, geographic 

 distribution, and other phases of zoological science to which they have 

 contributed of their time and thought. Nor was the work of many of these 

 students of nature confined to any one field. Nearly all of them were and 

 are all round naturalists, interested in and appreciative of nature in what- 

 ever garb she may be dressed. A number of them have contributed much 

 to the popularisation of natural history. 



Indiana authors have during recent years put Indiana in the front rank 

 in the field of literature as a producer of fiction of lasting value, and about 

 this we hear a great deal and are justly proud. It is no less true, though we 

 hear little about it, that Indiana occupies in the world of science even a more 

 distinguished place. Her chemists, her botanists and her zoologists have 

 put Indiana on the science map and are keeping her there. , 



