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leader in this line of progress, abundantly able to make good its defi- 

 ciencies, and especially competent to describe to you the aims, methods, 

 and results of an intensive experimental study of separate problems in 

 animal ecology, quite in contrast to the broad reconnaissance and general 

 orientation work which naturally falls to the director of a biological 

 survey of so large an area as the state of Illinois. 



