PREFACE 



If it is worth while to preserve the wild life of 

 our country, and of the world at large, then it is 

 the duty of the university educators of America to 

 take up their share of the white man's burden. 

 The training of a grand army of embryologists and 

 morphologists is all very well; but what about 

 saving from annihilation the species that our zoolo- 

 gists are studying? Which is the more important: 

 the saving of the pinnated grouse from extermina- 

 tion, or studying the embryology of a clutch of 

 grouse eggs? 



What is needed and now demanded of pro- 

 fessors and teachers in all our universities, colleges, 

 normal schools and high schools is vigorous and 

 persistent teaching of the ways and means that can 

 successfully be employed in the wholesale manu- 

 facture 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 or college 

 graduate that he meets how much he has learned in 

 his university about the practical business of pro- 



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