Roosevelt Wild Life Bulletin 
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RESEARCH ON WILD LIFE 
" The discovery 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 co\ering the life-history of the species 
with which he comes in contact. To carry out such investigations success- 
fully it would be necessarj- to spend many hours and days, perhaps even 
weeks and months, observing certain individuals or faniilj- 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. 
