d the cause is starving for money, men and publicity.
Education is not the ONLY duty of educators!
_The Carnegie Museum_ at Pittsburgh should be provided by Pittsburgh
with sufficient funds that its Director can put a good man into the
field of protection, and maintain his activities. The State of
Pennsylvania, and the nation at large, needs such a worker at
Pittsburgh; and this statement is not open to argument!
The California Academy of Sciences; |
The Chicago Academy of Sciences; | Appear to have done nothing
The New York Academy of Sciences; | noteworthy in promoting
The National Academy of Sciences; | the preservation and increase
The Rochester Academy of Sciences; | of the wild life of America.
The Philadelphia Zoological Society; |
The National Zoological Park; |
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A FEW OF THE INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING WHICH SHOULD EACH DEVOTE ONE MAN
TO THIS CAUSE.
_Columbia University_, of New York, has a very large and strong corps of
zoological professors in its Department of Biology. No living organism
is too small or too worthless to be studied by high-grade men; but does
any man of Columbia ever raise his voice, actively and determinedly, for
the preservation of our fauna, or any other fauna? Columbia should give
the services of one man wholly to this cause.
There are men whose zoological ideals soar so high that they can not see
the slaughter of wild creatures that is so furiously proceeding on the
surface of this blood-stained earth. We don't want to hear about the
"behavior" of protozoans while our best song birds are being
exterminated by negroes and poor whites.
_Cornell University_ should now awaken to the new situation. All the
zoological Neros should not fiddle while Rome burns. For the sake of
consistency, Cornell should devote the services of at least one member
of its large and able faculty to the cause of wild-life protection.
Cornell was a pioneer in forestry teaching; and why should she not lead
off now in the new field?
_Yale University_, in Professor James W. Toumey, Director of the School
of Forestry, possesses a natural, ready-made protector of wild life.
From forestry to wild life is an easy step. We hopefully look forward to
the development of Professor Toumey into a militant protectionist,
fighting for the helpless creatures that _must_ be protected by man _or
perish_! If Yale
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