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Roosevelt Wild Life Bulletin 
home in satisfactory shape, should be only a small portion of the 
field-naturalist's work. Skins and skulls are useful, but skins and 
skulls and measurements and proportions tell us only a little about 
the living animal. Most of us wish to learn something about its ways 
of life. 
I hope for great things from the Roosevelt Experiment .Station; 
and I hope for them not only for the great service that this Station 
may render to science, but because this good service will be ren- 
dered in the name of one of the great field-naturalists of this coun- 
try who was interested not only in science but above all in the 
betterment of America and of its people in every way. 
No one more than Theodore Roosevelt appreciated the value of 
the work done and to be done by the field-naturalist. No one more 
than he would welcome those services to science that may be accom- 
plished by the Experiment Station that bears his name. 
George Bird Grixxell 
