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collect and make field observations. Later they bring their collections 

 back to the laboratory where they are carefully sorted out and sep- 

 arated into component collections. Then, taxonomic specialists, per- 

 haps a man who is a specialists in Crustacea, another who may be con- 

 cerned with mollusks, specialists concerned with the classification study 

 those components or fractions of the collections that are of special 

 interest to them. 



There is a tremendous amount of information in these three-dimen- 

 sional data and that is what organisms are. They are three-dimensional 

 concentrates of data and we have to improve our means for extracting 

 that data and putting it to work. 



Mr. RuppE. Thank you very much. 



Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. Lennon. Thank you, Mr. Ruppe. 



Doctor, are you suggesting that there is a shortage of those in your 

 field to make these studies ? 



Dr. Galler. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Lennon. We are not training enough, there is not enough inter- 

 est generated, enough financial attraction to have people enter your 

 field in sufficient numbers to provide the number of people we need 

 in the area that you are talking about ? 



Dr. Gallee. Exactly so, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. Lennon". I was interested, I think, just a couple of days ago 

 in some poll that was taken I believe in Princeton University giving a 

 percentage of the students who indicated what they hoped to be doing 

 or expected to be doing 20 years from now. 



I think 2 percent expected to be in medicine while 29 percent ex- 

 pected to be teaching, and it was spread out from there. But only 2 

 percent of our people at this university indicated any desire or hope 

 that they would be in the field of medicine. 



Dr. Galler. Mr, Chairman, the field of taxonomy up to the present 

 cannot compete financially with many other areas of science and tech- 

 nology. 



Mr. Lennon". That is the point I was making. I thought from the 

 stories I had read about medicare and medicaid, with two brothers 

 getting some $380,000 in some 12-month period it seemed that the 

 most lucrative thing a man could do was to get into medicine, but only 

 2 percent wanted to do so in this survey. 



Dr. Galler. I wanted to conclude by saying that we have to find 

 ways of attracting bright young men and women into the field of tax- 

 onomy. It is a very exciting area of science but it is an undersupported 

 one. 



It is very difficult for a taxonomist to "retail" his science if I may 

 use the vernacular. He is really a producer and "wholesaler" of funda- 

 mental scientific information, that is then picked up in other disci- 

 plines and incorporated, serving as the base for their own advances. 

 The glamour comes through oceanography but the inputs are derived 

 at least in the biological end of oceanography from some of the classic 

 fields of science, especially taxonomy. 



Mr. Lennon. Counsel? 



