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MARINE AND FISHERIES 



1-2 EDWARD VII., A. 1902 



to build an intelligent, rational administration of our fishery interests. A knowledge of 

 life in its relation to environment is an important subject which biological investigators 

 have not heretofore sufficiently dealt with, but which, it seems to me, is necessary in 

 order to give practical value to special studies of the different species. After all, it is 

 the relations and interdependence of life in the aggregate, and of the conditions influ- 

 encing it adversely or otherwise, that mainly concern those who are seeking to apply 

 scientific methods of investigation to economic problems.' 



