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terested in wild life, with others broadly trained who can unravel the tangled

threads, assign the various knots to the respective specialists and then
bring 
together the waro into one harmonious whole. 
Out in the University of Minnesota a brilliant young doctor by the 
name of Green has consecrated the next few years of his life to a study of
Tula- 
remia, or Rabbit Fever. He has undertaken this study with the broadest biologi-

cal background by selecting an area of several square miles of forest and
open land 
-- the natural home of rabbits and Grouse -- which he can have completely
under 
his control. Here he will carry on intensive observations of all the wild
life 
of the area and its periodic fluctuations in numbers, as well as laboratory
ex- 
periments with control animals, in an effort to learn, not only about the
natural 
transmission of Tularemia from rabbit tQ rabbit and thence to man - but all
the 
other interrelations of wild life, vegetation, weather, etc., until he has
a com- 
plete understanding of this area and the nart Tularemia plays in the pfcture.
Let 
us all hone that he himself will be spared and that he will receive sufficient

encouragement, financially and otherwise, to finish the study upon which
he has 
set his heart and for which he risks his life. 
Allied with the same institution is a young man named King who, at 
considerable financial sacrifice, has agreed to carry on a somewhat similar
study 
of the Ruffed Grouse and, for the next three years at least, devote his entire

time to the study of this fine game bird, on another controlled area, in
an effort 
to learn just what becomes of them in a state of nature. The New York State
Con- 
swration Commission is undertaking a similar investigation with a young man
by 
the name of Gardiner Bump in charge, Michigan has a young ornithologist named

Dr. Pirnie who is dedicating his life to game problems, and Bowdoin College,
Maine, 
boasts of Dr. Alfred Gross, who has completed a monographic study of the
Heath 
Hen and is now undertakling a similar study of the Prairie Chicken for the
State 
of Wisconsin. 
It is often customary in discussions of this sort to overlook or take 
for granted the work of our Federal Bureaus of Animal Industry and Biological