THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA was the first institution of learning to enter the field of wild-life protection for active, aggressive and permanent work.  W.L.  Taylor and Joseph Grinnell, of the University Museum, have taken up the fight to save the fauna of California from the dangers that now threaten it.

At this point our enumeration of the activities of American zoological institutions comes to an unfortunate end.  There are many individuals to be named elsewhere, in the roll of honor, but that is another story.  I am now going to set before the public the names of certain institutions largely devoted to zoology and permeated by zoologists, which thus far seem to have entirely ignored the needs of our fauna, and which so far we know have contributed neither men, money nor encouragement to the Army of the Defense.

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PARTIAL LIST OF INSTITUTIONS OWING SERVICE TO WILD LIFE.

The United States National Museum contains a large and expensive corps of zoological curators and assistant curators, some of whom long ago should have taken upon themselves the task of reforming the laws of the District of Columbia, Virginia and Maryland, at their very doors!  This museum should maintain at least one man in the field of protection, and the existence of the Biological Survey is no excuse for the Museum’s inactivity.

The Field Museum of Chicago is a great institution, but it appears to be inactive in wild-life protection, and indifferent to the fate of our wild life.  Its influence is greatly needed on the firing line, especially in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and northern Minnesota.  First of all the odious sale-of-game situation in Chicago should be cleaned up!

The Philadelphia Academy of Sciences has been represented on the A.O.U.  Committee on Bird Protection by Mr. Witmer Stone.  The time has come when this Academy should be represented on the firing line as a virile, wide-awake, self-sacrificing and aggressive force.  It is perhaps the oldest zoological body in the United States!  Its scientific standing is unquestioned.  Its members must know of the carnage that is going on around them, for they are not ignorant men.  The Pennsylvania State Game Commission to-day stands in urgent need of active, vigorous and persistent assistance from the Philadelphia Academy in the fierce campaign already in progress for additional protective laws.  Will that help be given?

The Carnegie Institute of Washington (endowment $22,000,000) unquestionably owes a great duty toward wild life, no portion of which has yet been discharged.  Academic research work is all very well, but it does not save faunas from annihilation.  In the saving of the birds and mammals of North America a hundred million people are directly interested, and the cause is starving for money, men and publicity.  Education is not the ONLY duty of educators!