
(EB) Game Research and Education in Illinois, 
55, Research Agencies, The University of Illinois, including the Ath 
cultural College and the Natural His tory Survey, has long been prominent 
in zoological research, All of this research is of foundational value to 
ae game management; some of it is of direct value, especially such work as 



Forbes & Gross, "An Ornithological Cross Section of Illinois" (1907) and 
Cahn's paper, now in press, on the relation of quail and pheasants. Much 
valuable work on the pollution problem has centered here. 
the University.of Chicago has not been visited yet, but is known 
to be strong in botany, ecology, and other subjects of direct importa ce 
to game. 
There has been a great deal of ornithological research in both 
these institutions and elsewhere in the state, but here as elsewhere it 
has not taken the direction of investigating conservation methods or 
technique. 
34. Research Funds. The Conservation Department doses not lean on the 
university to do its fact-finding on game, although it is understood to 
have done so on the equally important problem of pollution, It is not 
financing any game research at the university. 
The president of the university has declined to apply for one of 
the Game Research Fellowships offered by the Sporting Arms and Armmunition 
Manufacturer's Institute. 
for the university to make a start toward meeting its large unfulfilled 
responsibilities in the field, Direct financing by the state would be 
another means to the same end. 
The itzaak Walton Eoundation is a very important potential sour 

This’ was’one, but not necessarily the only means 
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