SYMPOSIUM OX SCIENCE AXD KECONSTRUCTIOX 



THE EFFECTS OF THE WAR OX SCIENCE AND THE OPPORTUN- 

 ITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF SCIENCE UNDER THE 

 NEW ORDER OF THINGS 



ZOOLOGY 



Henry B. Ward. Urban a. Illinois 



In a sense the effects of the war on the science of zoology 

 are not very different from those it exerted upon other 

 branches of science. In many particuhirs identical results 

 have followed. The expenses of maintaining work have 

 increased with astonisliing rapidity. The nnmber of work- 

 ers available has been cut down so greatly that many lines 

 of activity have been necessarily suspended if not actually 

 abandoned, and it is hard to see how the pre-war organiza- 

 tion can be re-established. In any event it will require 

 considerable increase in endowments and appropria- 

 tions to finance the work that was under way when the 

 couliiet broke on the world. In case new activities are 

 necessitated by the war. as appears to many to be urgently 

 needed, then an even greater increase in financial support 

 will be required. In certain ways the monetary aspect im- 

 presses itself most forcibly on those who are in charge of 

 work in institutions for teaching and research. 



I do not attach any special significance to the fact that 

 in some such institutions the staff' has been depleted in its 

 higher ranks in tliat men have been called to assume duties 

 in connection with some branch of warfare that demanded 

 the services of an expert zoologist. This has been true, of 

 course, but at the close of the war many such men "v\-ill 

 return to their old positions and if some have been at- 

 tracted away from university and college life to what 

 seemed to them to be larger opportunities in other fields, 

 this loss can be made good by advancing those of subor- 

 dinate grade who have demonstrated their fitness in the 

 meanwhile. The period of pressure during continuance of 

 the war was exceptionally well calculated to test the fitness 

 of men for larger responsibilities and to prepare them rap- 

 idly for the assumption of such duties. While in a narrow 

 sense they are lost to our science, yet in the broader influ- 

 ence they are enabled to exert zoology will profit. 



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