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ance, because it marks the continuation 

 by the Roosevelt station of years of 

 work in progress under the supervision 

 of the college. Professor Hankinson has 

 for five summers been engaged in the 

 study of the fish of Oneida Lake and in 

 the Palisades Interstate Park region, in 

 co-operation with Dr. Adams. 



The selection of Professor Hankinson 

 for the Roosevelt Wild Life Forest Ex- 

 periment Station is the beginning of a 

 definite program of important work. So 

 far the work has been devoted to fish, 

 owing to limited funds, but now will be 

 extended to big game, game birds, fur- 

 bearing animals, game vermin and sim- 

 ilar forest problems. 



"It is significant to know that the Roose- 

 velt Wild Life Forest Experiment Sta- 

 tion at the New York State College of 

 Forestry at Syracuse is the direct out- 

 growth of plans, presented to Mr. Roose- 

 velt in December, 1916, for the study of 

 the natural history of forest wild life. 

 He greeted the suggestions with instant 

 enthusiastic approval, and urged that 

 they should be taken up 4 in a big way.' " 



This was the preliminary explanation 

 made by Dr. Charles C. Adams, Director 

 of the Station, when before the New 

 York Fish, Game and Forest League 

 convention he told for the first time the 

 latest plans for development of the sta- 

 tion and of the work already well under 

 way. 



"The station is new in name," Dr. 

 Adams said, "but its work is already 

 well under way. For the last five years 

 the New York State College of Forestry 

 has been making a study of the fish life 

 of the State, giving special attention to 

 the Oneida Lake and to the Palisades 

 Interstate Park. This survey work is in 

 the main to be continued by the Roose- 

 velt Station and Professor T. L. Hank- 

 inson, who lias been associated with 111c 



in the fish survey for the College of For- 

 estry, now comes as the first full-time 

 member of the technical staff of the 

 Roosevelt Station. It is now actually 

 under way. 



"Such a station is unique, as no other 

 similar station or institution is known to 

 exist. It opens up a vast field for the 

 'field naturalist.' As a memorial to 

 Theodore Roosevelt the plan has already 

 received hearty support from many lead- 

 ing naturalists and sportsmen. 



"The field is so large that I can only 

 give typical phases of the work as laid 

 out. There has, for instance, never been 

 made an exhaustive scientific study of a 

 trout stream in America. This will, it is 

 hoped, be made one of the specialties of 

 the Roosevelt Station. The relation of 

 fur-bearing animals to game vermin is 

 another subject demanding detailed 

 study. 



"Upon a foundation of fact and infer- 

 ence such as can only be built up by 

 investigations on the ecology, life his- 

 tories, physiology, disease and heredity 

 of wild life we may hope to build up such 

 principles of management or policies for 

 wild life as will fit them into the texture 

 of modern social and economic life. It 

 is only when this is done in a scientific 

 manner that forest wild life will be intel- 

 ligently and sympathetically appreciated 

 and can be used by man to the best ad- 

 vantage. This is in fact the largest wild 

 life problem." 



The man in jail doesn't have to dodge 

 automobiles. 



"Oh, Oswald is my darling boy," sang 

 the maiden before the row ; then she saw 

 him with another and she isn't singing 

 now. Which reminds us that we have 

 never seen a jealous goldfish. Have 

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