Roosevelt Wild Life Bulletin 



RESEARCH ON WILD LIFE 



" The discover}- of new species and races based upon the study of pre- 

 served specimens of game animals, has already progressed very far; but the 

 more attractive field which includes the habits of the game remains yet to a 

 great extent unexplored. This field is peculiarly open for investigation to 

 big-game hunters, and to all other men who go far afield and obtain first- 

 hand knowledge of the conditions under which the game animals live. The 

 closet naturalist, with his technical knowledge of the structure of animals, 

 can be trusted to perform the work of classification to a mathematical degree 

 of precision ; but we cannot obtain from him a trustworthy account of the 

 behavior of animals in their natural environment, or learn from him the 

 value to the animals of the various structures or characteristics which he has 

 shown them to possess. Much knowledge regarding the habits of game is 

 acquired by the successful sportsman. Yet it is often infinitesimal in quantity 

 compared to what may be acquired if the outdoors observer will direct his 

 investigations along the broad lines covering the life-history of the species 

 with which he comes in contact. To carry out such investigations success- 

 fully it would be necessary to spend many hours and days, perhaps even 

 weeks and months, observing certain individuals or family groups of game. 

 This is quite beyond the limits of time alloted the average sportsman. Never- 

 theless much can be learned by the collected evidence from many fragmentary 

 observations, providing only these are accurate. A great mass of accurate 

 fragmentary observations will often spell far more progress in investigations 

 of this kind than the observations of a few trained individuals over an 

 extended period of time." 



Theodore Roosevelt and Edmund Heller. 



Life Histories of African Game Animals, 



Vol. i, pp. vii-viii, 1914. 



PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCE 



" If you want improvements in industry, you may turn with confidence 

 to applied science. If you want to revolutionize an industry or create a new 

 one, you will do well to search the innermost recesses of the pure science 

 laboratory." 



Sir J. J. Thomson. 



