No. 380.] FALSE PREMISES IN ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY. 581 
country in the direction of interstate and national legislation 
has developed early enough for us to conserve the natural pro- 
ductions of the United States in a manner now impossible 
among older nations ; (f) that the unparalleled deforestation 
and agricultural settlement of the lands of the United States 
and the importation of foreign species of animals and plants to 
her shores has so suddenly and materially affected our climatic 
and zodlogical conditions that nowhere else in the world has 
there been presented such a variety of important economic 
problems ; (g) that owing to our exceptional facilities for the 
study of these problems by a corps of trained students and 
scientists so competent to solve them, and a people so alive to 
the necessity of education and reform, the civilized world is 
looking to us for results in economic research commensurate 
with the money, time, and brains invested, and the demands of 
a progressive century. 
