CONCERNING THE IMPORTANCE OF 

 ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY 



"In its relation to public welfare economic zoology is of the most vital and 

 far-reaching importance. Animal life, from its lowliest organisms, among which 

 lurk some of our deadliest foes as well as beneficent friends, to the highest verte- 

 brates, touches and effects our lives and welfare in innumerable ways. It must 

 be studied in all its phases as never before to guard against previously unsuspected 

 or little known diseases of man and domestic animals, as well as to develop the 

 wealth and ever-increasing variety of products from which we obtain food, medicines, 

 clothing, dyes, ornaments, and an endless number of other useful articles. No man 

 can now be considered well informed who has not a considerable knowledge of 

 economic zoology in its more direct relationships to human life, while to the scientific 

 investigator the subject has the charm of endless variety and service to mankind." 



From an address delivered at Baltimore on December 28, 1918, by Mr. E. W. Nelson, 

 Chief of the United States Biological Survey. 



"On the whole, I think that there is no branch or stem of zoology now so im- 

 portant to this world as economic zoology; and in the teaching of it the vast majority 

 of America's higher institutions of learning are fully twenty-five years behind the 

 times. 



"I have made at least six attempts to induce universities and colleges to establish 

 chairs of economic zoology, and have failed in all save one." 



From a personal letter from Dr. Wm. T. Hornaday, Director of the New York 

 Zoological Park, written December 30, 1918. 



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