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doubt as to the unique field and opportunity for the Roosevelt Wild 

 Life Station. Examples of a few representative opinions are here 

 given : 



1. " This is an extraordinarily interesting and valuable publication 

 and will be cordially appreciated by the many friends of Theodore 

 Roosevelt." 



2. " It is not merely interesting, but valuable. That it would be 

 the latter is to be expected, but so many professional bulletins of the 

 past have been written from the point of view of mere fact without 

 making them human that I fear the general public has begun to dis- 

 trust such publications. There is no reason for that feeling about 

 Volume 1, Number 1." 



3. " It is the work of supplying this knowledge of animal life 

 through scientific research and experiments, a knowledge of which 

 Mr. Roosevelt so clearly saw the necessity, that the Wild Life 

 Experiment Station has undertaken as its chief purpose. The first 

 reports indicate that it has met with a gratifying success in carrying 

 out the plans of this distinguished naturalist." Editorial, New York 

 Herald, January 30, 1922. 



4. " The first Bulletin of the Roosevelt Wild Life Forest Experi- 

 ment Station of the New York State College of Forestry * * * 

 indicates that despite the handicap of its cumbrous and complicated 

 name it is functioning successfully and with definite plans and clear 

 promise of usefulness. * * * The main facts and principal 

 figures in the movement so far, [are given] so that any intelligent 

 reader may know and understand just where the Station fits in 

 among the many Roosevelt memorial and conservation projects, just 

 what authority and resources are behind it and just what it expects 

 to accomplish. Colonel Roosevelt himself, as long ago as 1917, care- 

 fully examined and cordially approved the project which has a dis- 

 tinctive and fruitful field of its own, altogether unlike and outside of 

 the other agencies, corporate or official. * * * Two incidents 

 of the Bulletin are noteworthy: publication in full of the late George 

 W. Perkins' memorable paper in 19 17 to the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, in which he demanded that the 

 scientists should teach the world how to use and assimilate the forces, 

 like steam and electricity, which they have discovered, and a resume 

 of European plant and animal preservation, which make the Bulletin 

 as a whole remarkable for range, interest and value, a striking and 

 welcome contrast to publications of this type and bespeaking much 

 for its future and that of its supporters." Editorial, The Standard 

 Union, Brooklyn, February 10, 1922. 



5. " This Bulletin would be worth while for the collection of 

 portraits it contains, if for no other reason, but I am especially 

 interested in the outline of policy." 



6. " It is very well gotten out and is a highly effective document 

 so far as the public is concerned, and will certainly be gratifying to 

 all the friends of the Colonel." 



