THEODORE ROOSEVELT 

 1858-1919 



These are Roosevelt's words on wild life research : " There must be ample 

 research in the laboratory in order even to present those problems, not to speak 

 of •solving them, and there can be no laboratory study without the accumulation 

 of masses of dry facts and specimens. 



" I also mean that from now on it is essential to recognize that the best scientific 

 men must largely work in the great out-of-doors laboratory of nature. It is only 

 such outdoors work which will give us the chance to interpret aright the labora- 

 tory observations." 



