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Hornaday's ' Wild Life Conservation in Theory and Practice.' » 



— The lectures published under this title in the attractive volume before 

 us, were delivered before the Yale Forest School, through the efforts of 

 Prof. James W. Toumey and their delivery and publication represent, 

 in the language of the author, the " Awakening of Yale University " to the 

 necessity of aiding by educational methods the preservation of the wild 

 life of America. In his preface Dr. Hornaday says further, "What is 

 needed — and now demanded — of professors and teachers in all our uni- 

 versities, colleges, normal schools and high schools is vigorous and per- 

 sistent teaching of the ways and means that can successfully be employed 

 in the wholesale manufacture of public sentiment in behalf of the rational 

 and effective protection of wild life. Thus far the educators of this country 

 as a class and a mass have not done a hundredth part of their duty toward 

 the wild life of the United States and Alaska. Let him who doubts this 

 very sweeping statement ask the next young university graduate that he 

 meets how much he- has learned in his university about the practical busi- 

 ness of protecting wild life." 



The five chapter headings are: 'The Extinction and Preservation of 

 Valuable Wild Life ' ; ' The Economic Value of Our Birds ' ; ' The Legitimate 

 Use of Game Birds and Mammals'; 'Animal Pests and Then Rational 

 Treatment '; ' The Duty and Power of the Citizen in Wild Life Protection '. 



Dr. Hornaday has gleaned his facts from reliable publications and from 

 his wide personal experience and has assembled them in a convincing 

 manner, so as to make clear the economic side of the question. On the 

 matter of practical preservation of wild life he argues in his well known 

 forceful manner, condemning without mercy the "game hog" and all 

 enemies of conservation, pointing out at the same time the duty of the 

 government, the official and the citizen in furthering the work. 



Dr. Hornaday's volume will serve admirably as a text book for furthering 

 in other educational institutions the work that the Yale Forest School has 

 inaugurated, or as a handy work of reference for the public in general. 

 We can heartily recommend it as a valuable contribution to the cause with 

 which Dr. Hornaday has for years been so closely identified. — W. S. 



Hartert's ' Die Vogel der palaarktischen Fauna.' 2 — This install- 

 ment covers the remainder of the Aquilidse, including the Vultures and 



1 Wild Life Conservation I in Theory and Practice | Lectures delivered before 

 the Forest | School of Yale University | 1914 | By | William T. Hornaday, Sc.D. | 

 Author of "The American Natural History," | "Our Vanishing Wild Life," etc.; | 

 Ex-President of the American Bison Society | with a Chapter on | Private Game 

 Preserves | By Frederic C. Walcott | vignette | New Haven: Yale University Press | 

 London: Humphrey Milford | Oxford University Press 1 MDCCCCXIV. 8vo. 

 pp. 1-240. Price, $1.50 net. 



2 Die Vbgel der palaarktischen Fauna. Systematische Uebersicht der in 

 Europa Nord-Asien und der Mittelmeer-region vorkommenden Vbgel. Von Dr. 

 Ernst Hartert. Heft IX (Bd. II. 3) seite 1089-1216 mit. 31 Abbildungen. Ausge- 

 geben im Oktober, 1914. Berlin. 



